Do Life Right

My Always Unschooled daughters and I have been making up a lot of words lately. It’s fun and it’s evolutionary. This is how words are created. Sometimes current existing words cannot convey the particular meaning we are trying to get across, so we mix and match words that already do exist until […]

Science Fiction, String Theory, and Star Trek
What do these have in common? God. Yes, God, with a capital G.
I’ve heard the comments directed at Trekkies: “Oh, what geeks,” and “They just dress up and live in a little pretend world, how adolescent.” How banal that Trekkies are mistreated and misunderstood so! […]

My immediate family and I are not sports fans. Never have been and probably never will be. While we can appreciate other people enjoying sports, we don’t. [We’ve encouraged the kids to be sports fans, so they wouldn’t be influenced by us, but they wouldn’t have any of it. They know […]

Are you like us and can’t get enough of Star Trek?
Here are our 10 top shows or movies that are in a similar vein:

Galaxy Quest; This hilarious movie is all about “What if aliens thought the Star Trek universe was real?” I love the whole thing except the creepy, freaky, little aliens part. […]

Few of these came out in 2007, and many are underrated by critics and reviewers. That doesn’t stop us from forming our own opinions as to the best movies and television shows we’ve seen this year. If your family and friends don’t have these, consider them for presents this upcoming Holiday season. Again, these […]

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 […]

As a huge Indigo Girls fan, I’ve adored the song Closer To Fine since the first time I heard it. It popped up on the radio for me the other day as I was driving and the familiar, “Got my paper, I was free“ played and an old odd disturbance ran through me. It […]

Here are my daughters at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. We are huge Star Trek fans. While we’ve chosen to not purchase or use a curriculum for our children’s education, we’ve been known to joke and say that we use the Star Trek curriculum (afterall, we’ve been averaging viewing […]