Do Life Right

I’ve been hanging out with a lot of homeschoolers and unschoolers lately (as usual). I’ve also been hanging out with a bunch of schooled kids (not as usual). I happen to like all of these kids. They are all brilliant and smart and interesting individuals, but I’ve also noticed some distinct differences [...]

The title of this post is the title of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s recent e-mail to me and thousands (millions?) of other people.  PCRM likes to keep up-to-date on health and they like to tell the world of their scientific findings.  Their e-mail mentions that the USDA is currently drafting revisions to The [...]

I’ve written more on this topic here:

“Vegan and Ethical Trick-or-Treating“
“Our Vegan Halloween 2007“

Halloween 2008 looks to be an excellent Halloween for my family.  My daughters have been working on their very artistic costumes for a while now.  I love what unique ideas they keep coming up with for what they will be.  This year my [...]

Since I became vegan, I’ve had a lot of people take my food choices and health decisions personally. No matter how politely I explain that I will not eat non-vegan food and I have no problem with them eating whatever they want, I’m pelted at with excuses as to why that person would never [...]

I actually received the above insult in a sort-of obscure way. The person saying it honestly and truly believes that the only way a person can learn something — ANYTHING — is to go to school. They don’t believe it is possible to learn outside of a classroom environment about anything “important”. [...]

My baby turns eight today. She’s loved hearing all the blog articles I’ve been writing about my family over the past year and she’s requested that I write about her today. She requested that I not stop at eight, even though that is the age she is turning.
Without further ado, here [...]

Be a troublemaker when it comes to yourself!
Insist on being treated respectfully at all times.
Sometimes it’s so shocking how poorly we are treated that we are flabbergasted and don’t know what to say or do. Take heart! You can almost always do something about it later.
Write to companies. Call lawyers for help [...]

I honestly didn’t expect to talk about protein again on this blog, but it is looking like I need to again and it probably won’t be the last time. Yep, you’ve guessed it, the whole “Where does a vegan get protein?” question has come up again — multiple times. At a meeting I was [...]

My younger daughter has been begging me to write this post for over a month now. She’s a huge Amelia Bedelia fan (the rest of us are too) and we talk about Amelia Bedelia’s interesting perspective on life all the time. Whenever my daughter hears a phrase that could be thought of in [...]

I’ll say it from the start: I’m anti-chores, but I’m pro-clean.
How better to make our children resent cleaning and organizing than to force them to do it against their will? Think about which household tasks you dislike the most. Are they they ones you did with fun with your parents, or the ones [...]