Rickshaw Unschooling

This summer a pair of robins lost their first brood and began a second family in the wisteria above our porch. We were lucky to witness the...

Scrape scrape scrape... clay comes off smooth and silky from the creek-bed. Ta da! Lizard by Taliesin. This can't be fired. Th...

Theatre Sports at the Forest Village Theatre This week at the Wild Art program we've been creating a village in the forest. As wi...

During most of the school year, I lead a weekly family wilderness outing in my community. Parents arrive with their children from newborns ...

Star, the last of Tali's pet rats, had a tumor on his lower spine and finally lost function of his back end, last week. Here he is spe...

Tallying worldwide results of the family kersenpitspuugwedstrijd: Emily, Nana and children: between 15 and 18 feet (4.5 - 5.5m) Opa: 22...

With thanks to my Auntie, who made this beautiful sign, I thought it was time for some loveliness in this space, so I'm taking her e...

Recently I seem to be posting without enough care to express that the challenges I talk about are in fact my own challenges. Most disconcert...

Clothespins. Looking pretty scarce at the moment. A pain for a person who doesn't have a dryer. Where are they? Oh there they are!...

There was some upheaval in my community recently around the use of the word 'sexy' in a phrase that was intended to deeply complimen...

So today in our province, the big news was as expected: Our Feds approved the Northern Gateway Pipeline that threatens to destroy a large tr...

The title "Toys" is a bit misleading, because although I will give some product recommendations, this post is more about making go...

There's us: just two shy people who have sex and talk to our kids about it. After having read this wonderful piece about talking to...

Our kids spend a lot of time just playing in small groups: as a sibling pair, with a friend or two, and even alone. The benefit of this is...

This is a repost from my MAMAproject blog... There is nothing particularly special about me.  I am like billions of other people in t...

Happy May! building the fire Tali's wild salad Rhiannon's May Cakes ...aaand... look who joined in the maypole danc...

cormorant and gull with freighters Some days I look out around me at the forest, my community, the sky, the creeks and the ocean... an...