Rickshaw Unschooling

Recently our dinner time conversation was about how we should live, going into the apocalypse: admit defeat and carry on as usual, or figh...

  When I was in high school there was a poster on the door of my art classroom that displayed the then-ubiquitous 3 R's (Reading, wR...

Yay! It's time to talk about periods!   Or, depending on your situation, it may have been time a loooong, long while ago. It seem...

The other day my son wandered past where I was working, and said in passing, "I made a little alloy". I admit I wasn't fully a...

photo by Taliesin River To some of us, the concept of unschooling high school is an absolute contradiction of terms. I confess my heart ...

We finally did it! After planning for fifteen years to take our kids to Europe to meet their extended family, we just bit the bullet and wen...

It's midnight, the night before Easter breakfast. Our annual nettle picking is done; half of the nettles already put up in the freezer...

My children’s last great-grandparent has died. I wasn’t sure what to say about it for some time, since I am dealing with my own emotions aro...

Before I could get rid of this giant cardboard box, my kids hatched a plan to turn it into a vending machine. And over the weekend, with...

I sit down with a new group of kids, their wide eyes looking up at me, waiting to see what we'll be doing for the day. It sounds...