Do Life Right

South of Willcox and east of Benson, AZ, is the little ghost town of Pearce, AZ. Some Unschooling friends of ours wanted to check this little town out on our recent visit to Annie’s Orchard (for pumpkins and a corn maze). The old gold mining town is easy to find and quite quaint [...]

My kids are big fans of scientific crafts. Part of a successful homeschooling household is to keep a lot of ingredients on hand so that experiments can happen whenever the kids want them to.
Our ingredients for experiments arsenal has hundreds of things right now, but the core consists of:

baking soda
vinegar
pipettes
test tubes
food coloring and/or color [...]

This past week, my daughters and I went to Apple Annie’s Orchard and Pumpkin Patch in Willcox, Arizona, with some Unschooling friends of ours. We’d been to this pumpkin patch seven years ago and had found it hot and dry and full of decaying pumpkins that looked so sad we could barely find one [...]

As a writer, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the entertaining medium of storytelling. With every fall season’s new television shows, I’m reminded again exactly why some fail quickly, others fail slowly, and why some are huge successes indefinitely. Want to create a fantastic long lasting television series? Then take [...]

An adult recently asked my younger daughter what she’d been learning lately. She stared at the adult and was silent.
Duh, what hadn’t she been learning lately? I thought to myself, not in sarcasm either since I knew the adult had my daughter’s best interest in mind, she is just naive about how learning actually [...]

My 12 year old daughter came up with (and made) these recipes on her own. She even took the photos. It is similar to my Mexican Lasagna Casserole, but different.

Zoë’s Enchilada Casserole Version 1:

Green chili peppers - two flat layers
Corn tortillas - one layer
Vegan Nacho cheese - one layer
Boca Chicken-less patties cut into [...]

I love listening to the girls waiting for their dance classes while my daughter is in her dance classes. I recently told the story of several publicly and privately schooled girls who were talking about their homework with each other. One girl told of how her class was given homework every night (she’s [...]

I first heard of Steve Pavlina about five years ago. While I’d been a vegan for a few months (and vegetarian for quite a while before that), my children were just starting to explore this lifestyle (they have been vegetarian their whole lives and vegan for the past several years). So, I was [...]

A big part of my children’s lives are movies. We’ve met many homeschooling families who either don’t allow movies at all into their children’s lives, restrict movies to only “educational ones”, allow only one movie per week (or other predetermined timeframe), or at a minimum restrict the content of the movies the children watch [...]

After a recent Disneyland trip, my family and I checked out the Discovery Science Center (nicknamed “The Cube”) just a few miles away.  We immediately knew we’d found it when we spotted a large upended three dimensional black cube on the road.  The cube is mostly decorative, but also has solar panels and fiber optics [...]