Do Life Right

Right now, my Always Unschooled 7 year old is busy-busy-busy. From the get go, she has been one that has never stopped moving. She just can’t - still and quiet aren’t in her nature (although she is very very quiet in new situations). She moves all the time. Watching a single […]

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 […]

In the past fifty or so years, radio stations and television stations got to decide who we listened to and what we watched. This is changing, and I love it! With modern technologies, anyone can make a podcast, blog, movie, or song, then post it quickly and efficiently to the internet for the […]

Today is my Dad’s birthday. Since he is an avid runner I thought I’d recommend a few running things that he loves:
ChiRunning; There is the book and a DVD, both very interesting! Be sure to look over the website; they now have a ChiWalking section. It’s very Zen!
Nike shoes + […]

There’s nothing inherently wrong with having money. As a nation (the United States), we all want money, but we have a strange duality about money and wealth. We want it, but we resent the people that have it. We look at them as somehow immoral and disreputable, especially when they aren’t constantly […]

Our favorite “Children’s Fiction” Books We’ve Read in 2007:

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey, and the follow-up One Morning in Maine; These sweet stories capture Maine in its pure form. Blissfully happy, we see the girls Sal and Jane, as they go through significant milestones in their lives. I can barely get […]

My favorite “Adult Non-Fiction” for 2007 (in no particular order):

Skinny Bitch by Kim Barnouin; Not just another diet book, nor does it have any radically new information. However, it says all the same facts in a completely approachable and non-stand-offish way (unlike many vegan and vegetarian books out there). Clearly, McDougall books are not changing […]

Favorite Adult Fiction of 2007 (in no particular order). Sadly, I don’t think any of these can make my “Top 10 Fiction Books of All Time”, but they are good (if they weren’t I wouldn’t have written this list at all).

Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald; Woman’s Lit combined with Romance. I met the […]

Here are our Young Adult/Children’s Non-Fiction. Many of these are in the “Ologies” books. All of these beautiful books have notes and pockets (with treasures) scattered throughout. Some have games and all have highly detailed covers (with gems). These are not flimsy and whimsical books, but highly detailed and accurate in […]

Similar to our Top 10 Movies, today and the next few days are our Top 10 Books (divided into five categories: Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult/Children’s Non-Fiction, Adult Fiction, Adult Non-Fiction, and Children’s Fiction) for 2007 (all read by at least one person in my family). Most did not come out in 2007, we’ve just […]