Rickshaw Unschooling

When I was a new mother, my father told me that I took too many photos. He said my children knew the round circle of my camera lens better...

"So how many rivers in Tiel?" Grootmoeder asked me, from the driver's seat of her little car as we drove along the cobbled roa...

My kid is not a genius. Nope. Neither of my kids is a genius, in fact. I wish people would stop using that word. This seems like a ridic...

When I was a teen, my cousin told me that his father had promised to bake him a cake if ever he or his brother surpassed him in height. It w...

Explorative , creative learning is important . But it can be very hard to make happen, especially for those (most) of us parents who wer...

Exciting news, here... remember when I reluctantly gave up most of my teaching in order to concentrate on my art career? I still love teac...

Between the teens and the new feline baby I am getting absolutely nothing done this afternoon, so why not share a bunch of kitten photos? I ...

When I was a teen, I learned about the troubles that human greed would eventually bring us; chiefly through global warming, by the year 2100...

Last night I watched Roger Waters perform Another Brick in the Wall (We Don't Need No Education) with a group of local kids. I reali...

One of the biggest obstacles to getting engaged with the wilderness is a lack of inspiration. Kids - especially urban kids - simply don&#...

We recently brought a kitten into our home, on the advice that this would help our three-year-old cat's loneliness. Well, it's n...

You may have heard of Forest Bathing, or Shinrin Yoku . The miraculous power of the forest to calm and to heal seems to be gaining popular...

I am currently wearing a pink ribbon on my wrist. It is intended to humble me. More on that later. My teens are now participating in an in...