Do Life Right

Lovin’ Spoonfuls is our favorite restaurant in Tucson, Arizona.  It’s currently the only pure vegetarian (vegan) restaurant in the greater Tucson area — you’d have to go all the way to Phoenix for another all vegan restaurant.  While my family has become really good at navigating “regular” restaurants as well as vegetarian restaurants (which are [...]

We have an approximately 70 foot zipline in our yard that we’ve been playing with a lot lately.  To make it even more fun, we’ve recently added a ramp at the far end and a step at the beginning plus platforms at both ends, handles to climb up onto the first platform, and a fishing [...]

Due to popular demand from my “Enchilada Casserole” post, here is my Vegan-Friendly Prickly Pear Barbeque Sauce recipe. Once I realized that we were going to be able to get a large harvest of prickly pear fruit this past summer, I started reading up on various things people do with prickly pear fruit. [...]

Before indoor skydiving last week, my family and I stopped at Picacho Peak and went to the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch. About half way between Tucson and Phoenix, right off I-10, this ranch is a fun stop for the whole family. Even if you don’t want to touch any of the animals, you [...]

For my birthday this past week, my family and I decided to go indoor skydiving again at Sky Venture Arizona in Eloy, AZ (halfway between Tucson and Phoenix, just off of I-10). We went last year for my youngest daughter’s birthday and I wrote about it in “Fly like a SUPER HERO with Indoor [...]

My 12 year old daughter has come up with some of the most interesting Halloween costumes over the years. Since she has been old enough to decide her own costumes, she’s been: a black cat (twice), Laa-Laa (from Teletubbies), Madeline, a spotted bat, a computer (with working parts), a Borg, and a scarecrow. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been hanging out with a lot of homeschoolers and unschoolers lately (as usual). I’ve also been hanging out with a bunch of schooled kids (not as usual). I happen to like all of these kids. They are all brilliant and smart and interesting individuals, but I’ve also noticed some distinct differences [...]

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is in southern Arizona, right on the U.S./Mexico border. My family and I have been wanting to go there for a while and we recently had the opportunity. What surprised us the most was how few people we saw (only one other vehicle on the 22 mile loop). [...]