Category Archives: Daily Life

It looks like spring, may actually be on its way here. My chives A beautiful assortment of eggs, that we are now getting a plethora of.

Watching my children learn outside of a traditional education environment is fascinating. Sometimes it seems like nothing is happening for months. I start to question if I’m on the right path, the BAM! practically overnight new skills are developed. My … Continue reading →

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating … Continue reading →

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul’s raw passions — not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy — but forming and informing them as art. ~ Allen Bloom~

There has been a recent uprising of homesteaders around the world this past week. The Dervaes family has put a trademark on the words “Urban Homestead” and “Urban Homesteading”. If this is the first you have heard of this, a … Continue reading →

  It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves ~ in finding themselves. ~Andre Gide~

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets. ~Clark Moustakas

My house was built in 1971. It has undergone some extensive remodeling from previous owners, as well as work we have done in the last 7 years. There is one thing though, that apparently no one has felt the need … Continue reading →

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it — every bit of energy and ambition … Continue reading →