Rickshaw Unschooling

"They don't test us for French or science or art or humanities. They only test us for math and English. I think they want us al...

This week in my community two young deer met their demise and were found gory by the side of the road. A community discussion ensued, as peo...

Tonight we all sat out on the porch until our fingers froze, trying to look at comet Lovejoy through binoculars, a bird-scope and Tali's...

Rhiannon has always been fond of creating beauty: Beautiful spaces, beautiful stories, poems, and music, and - lucky for us - beautiful foo...

...AKA Our Unschooling Schedule! My kids in their most recent fort... with the grandparents' dog! I thought it time to post again ...

The ferry that usually services our island is in for a refit, for accommodation of more vehicles, lounge-to-ramp offloading, and other su...

Well, here were are, four months into being a schooling family, and I am still working out the concept of packed lunches. Of course I did ma...

At the risk of losing readership, I'm going to broach a topic I've avoided here, before. And I have asked my son's permission to...

I did it! Eindelijk heerlijke oliebollen gemaakt zonder gluten, boekwijt, soja, of eieren! New Year's Eve has come and gone, and with...

That's a line from one of my very favourite children's books, The Finding Princess, by Sue-Ann Alderson. The princess makes increa...

The moon isn't out, the Christmas tree hasn't been put up yet in this hall, but decorations are hung around the walls of the church ...

A friend currently writing his phd recently asked me to interview the kids on their ideas about learning. So I did! Here is the result:

There's something that happens to a relationship when babies come along. Suddenly all that care and attention that once the parents show...

In recent kitten news... Lughnasa has been eating dinner with us. When she sees the kids setting the table at about 7PM, she comes and me...

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...