Do Life Right

We’re huge Indiana Jones fans around here; we all loved the new movie (I thought it was the best one yet) and we’ve been working our way through The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume One - The Early Years, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Two - The War Years, and The Adventures […]

Photograph taken in Tucson, Arizona (west of I-10, near “A” Mountain), March 2008.
I’ve heard many parents say they limit their children’s television and movie viewing (both content and total “screen time“) because they are fearful their children will grow into zombie couch potatoes that essentially worship videos. It’s such an amazing sloth-like image, it […]

This could have been titled “Are you celebrating something special today?”
Twice in one day last week I was asked something similar to the above - once by a checkout lady and the next time by a waitress. Just what was my family doing? Having fun going about our normal day-to-day activities. We […]

Right now, my Always Unschooled 7 year old is busy-busy-busy. From the get go, she has been one that has never stopped moving. She just can’t - still and quiet aren’t in her nature (although she is very very quiet in new situations). She moves all the time. Watching a single […]

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 […]

Around and around, I hear “we don’t let Junior have more than x minutes of screen time per day.” (Or worse yet, per week!) Egads, what all is considered “screen time” anyway? I really want to know, but those touting the phrase “screen time” can never give me a definitive answer. […]

Nothing I produce is “open source”. I believe that everyone should get credit for their creations. That includes artists, writers, programmers, and musicians (just to name a few). If a work of art is appreciated by a great number of people, then the credit to the creator needs to be given in […]

What inspires you? What fuels your creativity? I get inspired by the most seemingly mundane things. My daughters and I started a list of some of the things that have inspired us in the last few days:

Snippets of overheard conversations
Snippets of participatory conversations
Boxes of food
Walking around stores (Vastly underrated)
Walking around outdoors
Unexpected colors […]

In the past fifty or so years, radio stations and television stations got to decide who we listened to and what we watched. This is changing, and I love it! With modern technologies, anyone can make a podcast, blog, movie, or song, then post it quickly and efficiently to the internet for the […]