Day 7 :: Ramona Burke

Oh, Ramona…Ramona, Ramona, Ramona. How much do you love that name? I met the whip-smart Yale grad and old-school, homeschoolin’ mom at Long Beach with the aforementioned LAMQG posse and loved her right away. She is an awesome force. Firstly, if she could be a prairie woman or raise her kids in the woods with no media (but still electricity for her many sewing machines…and Instagram) and just bows & arrows, and fur pelts, and crayons wittled from branches–filled with hand-dyed wax, she would. I, and most of the hippie-bourgeoisie mamas I know, would also like to do that and parent like that, but few of us would exchange our organic carrot ginger juice, Downton Abbey, and Nordstom for the chance. I do believe Ramona would. read more