Do Life Right

The little girl’s alarm rang and she immediately slammed her book closed. Her 25 minutes of required reading for the day was up and she wasn’t about to read a second longer - she didn’t care if she was in the middle of a sentence, let alone a chapter. As the alarm rang, [...]

I have to credit Dr. John McDougall for my final decision to try a vegan diet 5.5 years ago. I’d been thinking about it for a while and reading everything I could on the topic. Yet, I was scared and hesitant. I was completely unsure whether or not it was a healthy [...]

Try not to learn too much today!
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According to Sandra Dodd, on her fantastic website: SandraDodd.com:
“Unschoolers need a holiday. When people ask if they homeschool in the summer, they say yes. When people ask when they have a break from learning, they say never. This has gone one for a long time now. July 24, 2008 will be [...]

On July 12, 1895, the great visionary Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was born.
Bucky Fuller is on my short list of inspirational people I’ve never met (although I’ve met several people who have met him, so I’m only two degrees away). He was a dreamer who actually built his ideas, despite self-diagnosed depression (he lifted [...]

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 [...]