Do Life Right

This post is about compromise.
In most aspects of my life, I’m a great compromiser. While I figure out plans for art and craft projects, I’m quite flexible on how they are actually implemented. I’m the same on cleaning, driving routes, and a wide variety of other things in my life - especially with [...]

Having attended Pie Party 2007, I’m thrilled to advertise the 6th annual Pie Party 2008. There will be over 150 pies and they are all vegan (raw, gluten-free, and sugar-free options available)! Amazing! Everyone in my family highly enjoyed the party last year. There were door prizes, raffles, t-shirts and pins [...]

Are you using fabric shopping bags yet? Consider the implications of plastic and paper, before you allow your purchases to be put into either again.
What you can do:

Be aware of the plastic bag problem.
Encourage the shops you frequent to have bag incentive programs; talk with the owner and/or manager - BE NICE. Write [...]

I’ve had this dilemma twice now: Wear out my hands, or buy leather gloves. Silly me! I didn’t think I had options as a vegan, but I’ve been able to find vegan cactus lifting (gardening) gloves and vegan bicycling gloves. With my recent blog,  “Leather - Can you live without it?  Yes!” I’ve had [...]

One of our uninterruptible power supplies woke me up early this morning, telling me that our power had gone out. It’s January and Winter here, but not cold like in other parts of the United States, so the only real inconvenience was the beeping of the UPS and the wondering if my daughter’s Magic [...]

Is 2008 your year to become organized and get rid of all your clutter? Do you have items in closets that you haven’t looked at in years, but aren’t sure what to do with? Consider recycling your items in unusual ways.
CLOTHING:

Fur coat? Donate it to PETA; they give them to homeless [...]

Go to a gathering of healthy vegans, and the topic of vegan bashing and food sabotage often arise. In a healthy and happy room of people, it’s a shock to hear utterance of these not so healthy and happy topics, yet there is often someone there desperate for advice on how to deal with [...]

I’ve been asked why I am so “radical” in so many ways to current mainstream society in the United States of America (where I live). People wonder if I just enjoy being radical for the sake of being different/exciting/rebellious.
What are a few of my “radical tendencies”?

Unschooling our children
Eating a vegan diet
Living a vegan lifestyle [...]

Periodically, I enjoy taking one of the popular Earth print quizzes to determine how many Earths my family’s lifestyle requires. When I first took one of these quizzes, about six years ago, the answer was somewhere between 5 and 6 Earths! I was shocked and dismayed. Today’s answer came up: 1.2 [...]

“Don’t I need to eat fish so that my body can get the necessary Omega-3 fatty acids for my optimal health?”
Good question!
No. Humans do not need to eat animals — ever. Biologically and evolutionarily eating animals (even fish) is not necessary.
This is one question that medical professional without proper nutritional training (that would be [...]