Do Life Right

Many people have the New Year’s Resolution to lose weight. While I’m not a big fan of once a year resolutions, I am a big fan of advocating a McDougall style vegan diet for life!
To me, regaining health (or getting it for the very first time in your life!) is the most important reason […]

As attachment parenting advocates, we’ve learned that our children’s needs are just that — true needs. While we now know that babies shouldn’t be left to “cry it out” and toddlers shouldn’t be ignored, and older children shouldn’t be “left to their own devices”, sometimes we forget our own needs in the mix.
This can […]

“A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow up, to learn to take responsibility for his life and acts. Most important of all, we should not assume that having to yield to the threat of our […]

Go to a gathering of healthy vegans, and the topic of vegan bashing and food sabotage often arise. In a healthy and happy room of people, it’s a shock to hear utterance of these not so healthy and happy topics, yet there is often someone there desperate for advice on how to deal with […]

I’ve been asked why I am so “radical” in so many ways to current mainstream society in the United States of America (where I live). People wonder if I just enjoy being radical for the sake of being different/exciting/rebellious.
What are a few of my “radical tendencies”?

Unschooling our children
Eating a vegan diet
Living a vegan lifestyle […]

Periodically, I enjoy taking one of the popular Earth print quizzes to determine how many Earths my family’s lifestyle requires. When I first took one of these quizzes, about six years ago, the answer was somewhere between 5 and 6 Earths! I was shocked and dismayed. Today’s answer came up: 1.2 […]

When you are in a difficult situation, your reaction is yours and no one else’s. You own your emotions and you own how you react to them. No other person nor situation in this world makes you act a certain way or say a certain thing. Only you make these decisions. Although […]

It’s Christmas Eve and the stockings are all hung on the DVD-case (hey, we’re modern Americans!) with care and we’re diligently following St. Nick on Norad’s website.
We spent the evening playing our favorite board games, admiring our tree, and just enjoying each other’s company. There are no better memories made than the times we […]

Today we skip, run, jump and play play play Eloise-style. The days are growing longer and Christmas is a mere two days away. The anticipation is throwing off sparks that need a release. Thus, we need to celebrate “Christmas Eve Eve”.
On this very special day, we watch and . We […]

Without ever having heard the phrase, “Dude, Where’s My Car?“, my oldest daughter consulted her pendulum and discovered the perfect name for her Webkinz Gorilla: Dude. Dude is now a family favorite. We debated for a while whether Dude would be the Hawaiian shirt type, or the bib overall type. Clearly, Dude already […]