Rickshaw Unschooling

Every great story has a crisis in the middle. Well, maybe many crises, actually: a rising crescendo of trips and falls and failures and flat...

Markus aged 18 First there was the Universe. Then there was Markus. From then on this planet (Earth) was one of the most important thin...

It's January, people are committing to new goals, busy having adventures and navigating their lives, but you wouldn't know it if...

Look all over the news today. Or any day during the past many years. You are likely to come away with a sense of dread, if not fear. Sure, t...

My brother and I received this hand-made Advent calendar as a gift from my Tante Joelle when we were very young. It was filled with tiny g...

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...