Rickshaw Unschooling

Yum! Risotto: simple with butter, rice, leeks, onion, sea salt and our fresh-picked chanterelles. Risotto too hot to eat. And ...

Do you remember your childhood report cards? I do. The manila envelope with the special school-paper-smell, and inside a folded piece of yel...

So here's how it works: You pack up some tasty foods and a bunch of water; maybe an extra sweater or a hat, and you put on all your toug...

Yesterday my son's school hosted a public talk with renowned ethnographer, Wade Davis. He seems to have been just about everywhere, ...

Well we couldn't last long as a home with no cats. Lughnasa joined our family this week. The shelter estimates she was born about 10 w...

There has been some loss in my family, recently: pets, friends, and now the death of an uncle. As I write this, I know my mother is still ...

This autumn our friend Michael called us to see if we or any other home learners would like to come out and help him test the local sea wate...

This is one of the things I've been doing creatively, this past year: http://girlstoriesbook.blogspot.ca/ And now, finally, after all ...

Last day of being nine - we went for a walk around the lake. Rhiannon has known this lake all her life. I think it's a wonderful thing...

A link to a piece I was asked to write for the Undercurrent Newspaper: Undercurrent Climate Essay: Domestic Impacts

"So she told the cop that he had broken three rules: He pulled off my [clothes], slapped my [donkey], and shaved my [cat] when he got...

This morning in my t-shirt I stood and shivered in the pink sunrise, the blue light of dawn still behind me, to the west. The porch was dry...

Here's my Pie for Parkinson's challenge video. I'm supposed to tag people to carry on the challenge and donate to Parkinson...

First ever math homework! Recently my son did an assessment test before his first school experience. He entered grade seven having spent...

Don't worry little kitten - it's a herbivore. I hope. In 1998 Markus and I stopped to camp in a little campsite next to the Rose...

It may seem rather odd that we, who have been so gleefully unschooling for all these years, have sent our son to school. And an independent ...

So here in British Columbia, nobody in the public school system is in school, because our provincial Liberal party has precipitated a strike...