Do Life Right

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

This was a hard one to narrow down to ten. In no particular order, these are the top 10 Christmas movies we like:

Christmas In The Clouds; Only peripherally Christmas. We just watched it and I said, “Wow, that was a great movie.” My husband said, “It was only an hour and a half? Seemed [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It has come to my attention that there is a rather large group of women in the world that are proud of the fact their children consider them to be the “Meanest Mom in the Whole Wide World“. So proud, in fact, that their goal for their children is for them to become mean parents, [...]