Do Life Right

This is a guest post from my husband, Greg:
As with 2007’s list, these are movies I watched (or re-watched) over the previous year.  They didn’t necessarily come out in 2008.  Since we usually wait for movies to come out on DVD rather than go to the theater, I tend to see things a bit late.  [...]

Due to the Popularity of my Top 10: Favorite Movies and Television Shows We’ve Seen in 2007 and Top 10: Favorite Christmas Movies 2007 (which I couldn’t improve upon this year after seeing several new Christmas movies) posts, I’ve written one for movies in 2008 and this one for television shows.
In complete honesty, the following [...]

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 [...]

I always find the above question regarding our children’s Unschooling lives to be proof of the poor job modern public education is doing in regards to actually helping our children learn. Adults today are often fearful of mathematics, believing that it is hard, boring, and impossible for a person to learn unless forced upon [...]

In the mood to catch a little television from the past? Check out Joost. These shows are free, but they have commercials built in (both as pop-ups and full commercials that cannot be skipped). I’ve checked out other sites, but this one is legal, quick, and simple (so I like it). [...]

Contrary to television shows, people cannot be replaced by machines!
Computers are not capable of original thought. Humans are. Computers, and their software, only do as they are programmed. They cannot do more, or less, than the human(s) in charge of them have designed and programmed them to do. The world [...]

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 [...]