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In the next ten years, one of the things you’re bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be. I now consider veganism to be the ideal diet. A vegan diet–particularly one that is low in fat–will substantially reduce disease risks. Plus, we’ve seen no disadvantages from veganism.
— , Cornell-China-Oxford Project on Nutrition, Health, and Environment 1983-1990
Happy day for my family and me!
When our local vegan restaurant, Lovin’ Spoonfuls Cafe, sent us an invitation for a benefit dinner for one of our favorite local cat shelters, Casa de los Gatos, we were immediately interested. Add in a haiku contest, plus the chance to meet up with some fabulous friends of ours, [...]
On Friday, July 16th, Jennifer Waddell and her cameraman Jimmy came to my family’s house to interview us about our Radical Unschooling lifestyle. Since it’s been asked: Opening our home to the interview was a big decision that my family made together. If even one of us had decided not to, the answer would have [...]
Today marks the anniversary of the birth of my oldest child. Zoë is officially 13 as of 8:35AM Iowa time!
It’s true, she’s been hesitant about this birthday. She has loved her parties over the years, but she has always been unexcited about the prospect of actually being a year older (and thirteen feels particularly significant). [...]
Every three months, the Whipple Observatory’s visitor center hosts a “Star Party”. Since we can see this observatory from our house, we’ve been wanting to go there for some time. When I first looked into it, my youngest was younger than 6. Since they don’t allow those younger than 6 to go to the observatory [...]
I’ve really been enjoying the flowers this spring. Here is a view from my dining room window (through the glass and screen) of the Santa Rita prickly pear blooming, plus a variety of photographs of other prickly pear blooms around my land. I’ve also added a photo of my daughters with my mom and one [...]
After taking photographs of my daughters as the letters of the alphabet, they wanted to try making numbers, too. We recently got around to doing this and here are the awesome results (they were taken in Rancho Sahuarita in December 2008). We’ve made something really exciting with these numbers that I’ll be posting about very [...]
From the moment each of my daughters were born, you’ve seldom been able to find me without a camera close by. A favorite thing for me to do is to take photographs of my second daughter in the same environment and clothing as her sister wore at the same size. Here are a few photographs [...]
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 [...]
As I’ve recently posted about, my Always Unschooled 12 year old recently turned 12. For her birthday, we planned the whole day around her and what she wanted to do (we actually do this often, but somehow birthdays are extra special). She wanted a surprise (to the guests) Chinese New Year’s birthday party, [...]
My Girl Scout troop has been doing a lot of art related projects recently. In honor of that and in order to be inspired to try a few new types of art, we recently visited several art galleries. The overall favorite was the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, located in northern Tucson, Arizona. [...]
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