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My family hasn’t had a landline telephone in nearly eight years.
Have we ever missed it? Nope, not once. We also haven’t missed the cables to our yard, the hefty fees, nor the poor customer support.
How is this possible? Well, we started with a Cricket phone when we lived in central Tucson. Cricket [...]

My family and I recently went and saw Walking With Dinosaurs: The Live Experience. Our rating: 2 thumbs up! Traffic was even so great we got there early enough to park on the street (for free). We’ve been wanting to see this show ever since we saw clips from it in Jeopardy! [...]

Here is the last of Zoë’s series of Haiku poems for the summer of 2008. Certainly she’ll write more later.
Click here for PART ONE and here for PART TWO.
Tortoise
Turtle, terrapin
It is neither one of those
The desert tortoise

Coyote

Howls out my window
Even though they’re far away
They seem very close

Barrel Cactus

Sunset red flower
Short and [...]

My daughter received a Lil’ Kinz Gecko for her birthday. After much thought, she decided to name it Nopalito. This is the name for chopped little prickly pear pads that are ready to be eaten. The color is the same as the Lil’ Gecko, sounds cute, and it’s appropriate for the areas [...]

My daughter, now 12, has written some more haiku poems for Do Life Right. Click here to read her first ones.
Saguaro Fruit Picking Part One

The bent saguaro
All the birds fly to the top
To get the best fruit

Saguaro Fruit Picking Part Two

While we pick the fruit
Baby birds echo inside
Of the saguaro

Saguaro Fruit Picking Part Three

Saguaro [...]

As I’ve recently posted about, my Always Unschooled 12 year old recently turned 12. For her birthday, we planned the whole day around her and what she wanted to do (we actually do this often, but somehow birthdays are extra special). She wanted a surprise (to the guests) Chinese New Year’s birthday party, [...]

My Girl Scout troop has been doing a lot of art related projects recently. In honor of that and in order to be inspired to try a few new types of art, we recently visited several art galleries. The overall favorite was the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, located in northern Tucson, Arizona. [...]

I was mistaken when I believed the Arizona summer monsoons were nearing their end for 2008. On Wednesday, earlier this week, my area was hit harder than it has been in the whole entire time I’ve been in Arizona (9 years). We spoke with three different neighbors on Thursday and they’ve all been [...]

We’ve been fortunate enough to actually see wildlife eating the pads of some of our prickly pear cacti. We especially love watching the rabbits eat it. They take a bite into the outer rim and then eat only the inside part, leaving a circle behind. Bugs, on the other hand, eat it [...]

Today is the one year anniversary of the blog on the Do Life Right website. I’ve highly enjoyed talking about veganism, Unschooling, Webkinz, arts and crafts, and more, over this past year. Expect more of the same.
Thanks to all my readers! This site has seen a lot of growth [...]