Do Life Right

This is one that always gets me. “Act your age!” is almost exclusively said to children, rarely to adults.
Why the disparity between adults and children?
This comic sums up my feelings on the matter:

Who determined that all children must learn to read by age 6 and shan’t read before age 3 or 4? I’ve [...]

I find it appalling that the dairy industry is still advertising that drinking milk can help people maintain healthy weights.
In the Summer of 2005, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine took the weight loss with dairy myth to court. In May 2007, PCRM won, making it so that advertisements of milk as a weight [...]

The vast majority of bloggers allow comments on their posts. There are many reasons why I have consciously chosen not to. Here are the main ones:

No spamming of my site! No spamming to me personally! No spamming to the other readers!
No unproductive and useless negative feedback from internet trolls. I’ve [...]

I’ve had a few people tell me that making their house vegan was incredibly easy and they had no idea why it took my family so long, or why we found it so difficult. Read my “Leather - Can you live without it? Yes!” blog post for more information on my family’s [...]

I love Webkinz. I really and truly do. I think it is the best virtual world available today. It appeals to children and adults alike and it is fun (although it is only being marketing to children). My kids and I have gotten a lot out of playing on the Webkinz [...]

Around and around, I hear “we don’t let Junior have more than x minutes of screen time per day.” (Or worse yet, per week!) Egads, what all is considered “screen time” anyway? I really want to know, but those touting the phrase “screen time” can never give me a definitive answer. [...]

The fear of soy has encroached on my life once again. I’ve found that those fearful of soy have come into my life about once a year ever since I became vegan, about five years ago. They are usually concerned that my family eats soy ice cream in replacement of dairy ice cream, [...]

Nothing I produce is “open source”. I believe that everyone should get credit for their creations. That includes artists, writers, programmers, and musicians (just to name a few). If a work of art is appreciated by a great number of people, then the credit to the creator needs to be given in [...]

I’ve had this dilemma twice now: Wear out my hands, or buy leather gloves. Silly me! I didn’t think I had options as a vegan, but I’ve been able to find vegan cactus lifting (gardening) gloves and vegan bicycling gloves. With my recent blog,  “Leather - Can you live without it?  Yes!” I’ve had [...]

Where and when in your life have you learned the most? I bet it was when you were having the most fun, exploring somewhere new and different or truly and deeply diving into something that was normally overlooked and commonplace.
We’ve noted that the shows that we’ve been enjoying the most lately are those that [...]