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Happy Spring Equinox Everyone!

As Earth revolves around the Sun, there are two moments each year when the Sun is exactly above the equator. These moments — called equinoxes — occur around March 20 or 21 and September 22 or 23. Equinox literally means “equal night,” since the length of day and night is nearly equal in all parts of the world during the equinoxes. A balance of light and dark that is both metaphoric and symbolic to those paying attention to change. The March equinox marks when the Northern Hemisphere starts to tilt toward the sun, which means longer, sunnier days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the March equinox is called the vernal equinox, because it signals the beginning of spring (vernal means fresh or new like the spring)....

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"How We Became a Family" books get a little recognition.

Uncommonly Good Books for Kids calls themselves "The underdogs of children's literature, the lesser-known classics, the hidden gems, the MUST READS! Plus a bit of book culture for kids." Thank you Ellen Trachtenberg of Uncommonly Good Books for Kids for your fabulous resource for children's books and for helping to get the word out about our book "How We Became a Family!" Please like and share their Facebook post. Thank you everyone!

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Happy Earth's Perihelion Day; When Earth is Closest to the Sun - What? It's Winter!

The Sun as it appeared just a few hours before perihelion 2015, as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This image is in the far ultraviolet, emphasizing the corona, the star's outer atmosphere. Note the "coronal hole" near the bottom, where the solar wind streams away from the Sun.Photo by NASA / SDO / Helioviewer.org NASA and writer Phil Plait for Slate magazine, tells us that tonight marks the point where the Earth is closest to the Sun all year and it's called the perihelion. What? But it's Winter time? How can that be? I must have missed my college astronomy class that day, tho I doubt I'm the only one. I know it's the 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth that gives us our seasons, but...

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