Rickshaw Unschooling

I bought helium balloons for Rhiannon's birthday, at $2+/ea, knowing full well that it wasn't a green option for a planet that is f...

We pulled it off. It was so epic it was almost unbelievable. Here's what we did: Firstly, some time ago Rhiannon confided in me that s...

As it happened, Opa showed up late one evening with a Steller's Jay that he had found caught in the rat-trap. Very unfortunate and sad, ...

Rhiannon has maintained for years that she wants to be a wizard when she grows up. In preparation, she is potion-maker extraordinaire. Often...

Taliesin wanted pet rats for his birthday. He is certainly getting old enough to shoulder the responsibility of a pet, so we let him do ...

My kids participated excitedly in this action with three of their friends. It took me a long time to post this, but thanks to the person who...

My family has a lot of Brio train tracks. Yes. A LOT. I had quite a bit when I was a child - nearly enough to reach from one end of our 40-f...

Thomas' dancing blob! It was a mixture of cornstarch and water which, when blasted from below with music, actually got up and danced...

Here I present two beautiful new blogs for you to peruse (and seriously, this blog's not gone -- I'll get the photos into all belate...

This is a topic that gives our family a good deal of stress. Simply because it's so obvious to us (parents) that, if our kids would just...

We are involved in the raw milk issue. Because we want to drink it. Our raw milk provider (we have been participating in a local herd-shar...

This is perhaps a little bit obvious to most unschoolers, but I just have to put this out there: The absolute best way to educate a child is...

Many of the people who arrive at this blog from Google searches are coming for the articles I once wrote, calling for Mothers Against TV: (r...

In her article published in the Guardian, Naomi Wolf writes, "In other words, for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of it...

Our Christmas tree, a few years ago. As many are already aware, today is Buy Nothing Day -- Adbusters Magazine's call to action agai...

I thought this very short clip put it quite simply:

Michael Stone speaks in Vancouver about where the Occupy Movement is headed. What is our aim, as a movement? How will we work through our an...

For those interested, here are some recent photos from the grounds of Occupy Vancouver: Come down to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Look at ...