Do Life Right

Our Task: Write up four riddles for the four champions in our Harry Potter class’s Tri-Wizard Tournament Task 2. [Here are links to the clue and prizes for Task 1.]
Here’s what we did and how we did it:
Task 2 had the kids (champions) diving into a local public swimming pool in order to [...]

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
–Chinese Proverb
For the past 2.5 years, I’ve been on a quest to raise capital for my software company, ZenActOS, Inc. Through this exciting, frustrating, overwhelming, and exhilarating adventure, I’ve learned a lot about Venture Capitalists. Following is a [...]

My youngest daughter just had a Parent Trap movie fest, so I have the clever “Let’s get together” song in my head as I write this blog post. We could have a real good ti-ime.

Do you know what your words mean? Pima.
I live in Pima County, Arizona. In researching [...]

Announcing the Wright on Time Book Series!
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The Wright family is taking off on an adventure of a lifetime. Living in an RV for two years, this homeschooling family is determined to make the most of their travels and have fun exploring the world together. Eleven year old Nadia and seven year old Aidan, make a [...]

I am currently looking for an agent in order to sell my children’s chapter book series. (Details about that in a post later this week.) There are many reasons why I started writing these books. One of the biggest reasons is the lack of good quality parents in children’s books.
It seems like [...]

I’ve had the opportunity to give multiple elevator pitches over the past year, for various reasons. I’ve discovered that no matter what you are pitching, the technique is always the same. An elevator pitch is usually either 2 or 3 minutes long (sometimes only 1 minute), depending on your situation. The gist [...]

I’ve recently been judging a novel writing contest (which I cannot give out any details about, but, of course, it’s a great contest). I’m finding the judging to be loads of fun. I’m reading books that I normally would not read and that is always of great interest to me. I’ve found [...]

My daughters have been watching their Dad and I their whole lives. They live fully with us and are within hollering distance nearly 24 hours every single day. What this means on a day-to-day basis is that they see us in all our glory: the good and the bad. My husband and I [...]

I keep meeting people that smile politely at my ideas and feign interest, yet when push comes to shove they do nothing to change their ways to be more similar to mine. Nor do they do anything to help me and my causes.
Makes me wonder about the art of persuasion.
Just how does a person [...]

The following post is a guest post from my 11 year old Always Unschooled daughter, Zoë. This is her very first written report and she’d like to share it with the world. She wrote it for the Harry Potter class that I wrote about in my “My Unschooled 11 Year Old — Right [...]