Do Life Right

After Price, we made our way to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. If you plan on staying the night, the closest town with a motel is Price, about 30 miles to the north. As we zig-zagged our way through tiny towns, we enjoyed seeing the way the locals lived. Open range cows grazed the land and […]

My family recently went on a trip to Northern Arizona and Southeastern and Central Utah to explore dinosaur bones. We actually ended up going to more of Utah than we’d originally intended. It is a fantastic state. The terrain changes drastically, much more than any other single state we’ve been to. […]

My family and I recently went to U-DIG Fossils, a trilobite fossil quarry in central/western Utah near Antelope Springs (although we never saw that town or any town near there). Go with a full tank of gas and plenty of drinking water (and food), as there are no services of any kind (including bathrooms […]

Maybe I’m fixated on goals, as this isn’t my first post on the topic.
I love goals. Without them, I wouldn’t finish a lot of things I’ve started. Who wants a half finished quilt or the first two chapters of a manuscript? Not many people. Who wants to go to a themed […]

The following unedited post is written (and typed up) by my Always Unschooled 11.5 year old daughter, Zoë. She interviewed my Always Unschooled 7.5 year old daughter, Teagan, yesterday. Teagan, on her own with no prompting, took a variety of food ingredients and created a solar system on our kitchen table. All […]

Never be afraid or ashamed to admit you don’t know something.
The other day my husband asked my older daughter (11.5) if she knew what a particular word meant. It was conversational and light and happened in response to her asking us a question about a clue on Jeopardy! — his asking was not part […]

I thought school was supposed to be about learning, not order. Yet, order and control is all it seems to be about anymore. The administrators have lost sight of the real goal by bringing attention to all their “nondisruptive” circumventions.
The Chicago Tribune’s article titled “Neuqua Valley High School student can wear anti-gay T-shirt […]

This entire blog post is a direct quote announcement:
Lovin’ Spoonfuls is proud to help sponsor Dr. Nathan Winograd, former director of the San Francisco SPCA.
Most of us believe that there are too many cat and dogs around, not enough homes and that we are therefore forced to euthanize the “excess”.  Dr. Winograd has implemented […]

This could have been titled “Are you celebrating something special today?”
Twice in one day last week I was asked something similar to the above - once by a checkout lady and the next time by a waitress. Just what was my family doing? Having fun going about our normal day-to-day activities. We […]

People learn in different ways. While I absolutely abhor labeling children, as a mother I’ve come to appreciate realizing that there are different EQUALLY VALUABLE ways of learning and being. All are correct, yet drastically different.
I’m a person who learns well from words. I read a lot and I absorb it. […]