Do Life Right

Several years ago, my oldest daughter asked me to please not use paper wrapping paper anymore. She felt that it was a waste of resources to use paper (even recycled paper) for a short term happy ripping effect. Her argument was compelling and we agreed that we’d never purchase wrapping paper again, and we’d reuse [...]

I’ve always wanted a gemstone tree. I first saw one in a specialty store when I was a child. It was so beautiful, and looked so fragile, I was afraid to touch it. Yet, I did — gently, watching the way the little tree arms moved and the little leaves swayed. My parents bought [...]

My daughters have asked me to tell more details about the following:
My children and I have taken two of our favorite activities and combined them into ONE super fun game that we enjoy so much that we now play it just about once a week. What are these two things? Webkinz and Trading [...]

I first wrote about “Vegan and Ethical Trick-or-Treating” in September. Here is an update.
We had an absolutely excellent Halloween! My oldest daughter dressed as a Borg (from Star Trek) and my youngest was an astronaut. Note the space theme.
We went to two parties: A Vegan one (a potluck), and a Homeschooler’s [...]

With Halloween just over a month away, I’ve been having people tell me they feel sorry for my kids. They think that because we are vegan, we don’t eat candy or go trick or treating. We happen to do both.
To have an ethical Halloween, consider what you purchase for your Halloween handouts.

Do you [...]

We had a wild adventure yesterday with close friends and family (thirteen participants and one observer in all). My youngest daughter is about to turn 7. Her greatest passions are space, space travel, the sky, and dreams of flying or levitating. We are always trying to help our daughters have their dreams come true, but [...]

My oldest daughter turns eleven on Sunday. If we lived in England, she’d be getting her letter to Hogwart’s about now. But, alas, we live in Arizona, USA. Then, of course, there is the fact that we have chosen homeschooling, Radical Unschooling to be precise, as the form of education in our household… Still, the [...]