Do Life Right

This is a guest post by my 11 year old Always Unschooled daughter, Zoë. She has been writing up haikus left and right and wanted to show the world a sampling of her latest writings. Cumulatively they sum up her life over the past few days.
Cats
Playful Fiona
Connor comes to steal my food
Astrid sits […]

My family and I (two daughters, ages 11.5 and 7.5) have been able to play with a variety of virtual pets over the past year and we’ve compared them side-by-side. The ones we’ve tried are: Webkinz, Shining Stars, Ty Beanie Babies 2.0, My ePets, and Ty Girlz. If any other company would […]

Today our tortico (Tortoise Shell and Calico mix) cat Fiona turns one. She was a shelter cat who had been found on the side of a road by a police officer. Her litter mate didn’t make it, but she did (burnt paws and all). Fiona has turned into a lovely full grown cat […]

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 […]

We’ve been getting in the habit of photographing our various Webkinz in unusual places. Here are a few recent snapshots. See our Webkinz Bengal Tiger in my recent Madera Canyon blog post.

My daughter needed dragon eggs. Since dragons are rare and difficult to find, combined with the fact that we’re vegan and try never to use animal products (especially the babies of a species), we’ve been working on creating our own magically made up ones. Here’s how we did it:

Get a large plastic Easter […]

I’m a strong believer in following interests and passions. I’ve become immersed in numerous things over the years, including photography. For a time I had my own photo studio. I enjoyed it a lot and still take many photographs (mostly of my daughters and scenery). Since my parents are visiting and my youngest daughter is […]

Is Webkinz turning our gardens into secret gardens? When we logged in today to take care of our plants, we discovered that our gardens were missing! After many failed attempts, we weren’t able to even get to my youngest daughter’s garden to check it out… We had to make up a […]

Connor (our oldest cat, at age 12.5) is, by far, our most photogenic cat. He’s a loving and cuddly cat. Since I haven’t shown a photo of him yet, here is one. Enjoy!

One of the two most frequently looked at photographs on this site is of my lovely cat, Astrid, in my post “Adopt Pets from Animal Shelters“. For everyone that has found her as beautiful as we do, here is a recent photograph for your viewing pleasure.