Do Life Right

Here are a few images of Madera Canyon (near Green Valley, AZ) that I took this week.

My daughters have asked me to tell more details about the following:
My children and I have taken two of our favorite activities and combined them into ONE super fun game that we enjoy so much that we now play it just about once a week. What are these two things? Webkinz and Trading [...]

With only two weeks until Thanksgiving, it isn’t too early to start planning what you and your family are going to eat.
Yes, it is possible to have a filling, delicious, and fabulous Thanksgiving dinner that is vegan. My friends and family have been having one for years. We eat many traditional Thanksgiving foods, we just [...]

My daughters and I are HUGE Webkinz fans. We play on the Webkinz site every single day and we have quite a few pets. These little stuffed animals, and their virtual counterparts, are the best stuffed animals we’ve ever seen.
All that said, as a person with programming experience, I’ve been very disappointed with the Webkinz [...]

I’ve had people say to me, “I get why you eat a vegan diet and I am against animal testing. However, I don’t understand why you won’t buy shampoos and lip balms, etc. that contain animal ingredients.”
Simple answer: Do you know exactly what those animal ingredients are? If you did, you just might not [...]

As many of you know, my family and I have been planning on building a house for about four years now. We started seriously planning the house (and where to put it) in early 2004. We purchased our land in August 2004. Our biggest holdup is that our county has very tough requirements on building [...]

There are certain days in my life that stand out strong in my memory. One of these days is the first time I saw Joe Versus the Volcano. This Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan classic is one of my family’s all time favorites. It is inspirational in ways that few other movies or books are. It’s not [...]

Today is day 3 in the somewhat famous NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) experience. The goal of each participant is to write a minimum of 50,000 words (a novella) in the 30 days of November. This is my fifth year of participating and the second year that I’ve gotten a very late start (I haven’t [...]

I’m often asked what my family does day in and day out as Unschoolers. I always pause before answering this question in order to determine what the questioner is actually asking. The thing is, there is no “typical day” in the life of this Unschooling family (or any that we’ve met). We don’t wake up [...]

I first wrote about “Vegan and Ethical Trick-or-Treating” in September. Here is an update.
We had an absolutely excellent Halloween! My oldest daughter dressed as a Borg (from Star Trek) and my youngest was an astronaut. Note the space theme.
We went to two parties: A Vegan one (a potluck), and a Homeschooler’s [...]