Rickshaw Unschooling

Me in my garden - photo by my son Taliesin River. I started unschooling my kids rather out of a place of despair, when my son's lear...

Found: A decomposing, rat-chewed deer vertebra. This morning my fabulous group of Wild Art kids and I lay on the forest floor with o...

My fourteen-year-old daughter is spending today doing and creating crossword puzzles, playing Sims, and rehearsing for her current role as G...

"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them."                ~Assata Shakur Our family didn't o...

Vancouver Youth Climate Strike, March 15, 2019. Photo by Eva Uguen-Csenge/CBC reposted from CBC . My kids are in the middle. In the ver...

My son took this for his media arts class at school. Twelve and a half years ago my son entered Kindergarten and became resentful of s...

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...