About Erica
This blog came from a desire to share my journey of experiencing life post-children. I celebrate the life-changing awarenesses revealed to me since our son Declan and daughter Quinlan came along, including unschooling, unassisted birth, elimination communication, joyful living, and especially unconditional parenting, the fodder for most of my writings here.
The name “Kitchen Or The Egg” was a phrase misspoken by my husband Mike during a long car ride one day, and I loved it. I like how close it sounds to “chicken or the egg,” but with a funny twist. Sometimes, I feel like “kitchen” represents the topics I think about around home and food, and “egg” represents the life within it. But mostly, I just love the way Mike said it and now it’s taken on a life of its own.
I am currently a stay-at-home-mom with an established healing arts practice, Wyld Acres. As an experienced and certified French teacher, I offer private French tutoring for students preparing for the NYS French Regents or Proficiency Exams. Mike and I also own a regional parenting website, Hudson Valley Parents.
My pre-kid life includes careers teaching French (grades K-12), French translation, women’s rights activism, development/institutional fundraising, and educational consulting. I have been fortunate enough to travel internationally for studies in France as well as volunteer work projects in Haiti, Mozambique, and Cambodia.
I enjoy practicing yoga and Pilates, playing violin and viola, hiking, and eating way too much chocolate. Mike and I have been married since 1996 and live in the Hudson Valley, New York with our children, a retired racing greyhound, a few fish, and some free-range chickens.