Progress!

Getting rid of stuff–or dekludging, as we call it–happened to an actual perceivable degree this weekend.  You see, Sunday was my birthday and what did I want?  LESS stuff!  My darling husband obliged by taking a day off from the giant mess of things we always have to get done, and...

The Things That Own You

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.  – Oliver Wendell Holmes Wow, I’ve had a rough week.  I feel positively weighed down...

Other Fulltime RV Dwellers

We’re not the first to think that a family of five can be happy living fulltime in an RV: http://www.lundy5.com/ This family is working on baby #6: Roadschooling Ryans Family of six living their dream of changing the world: Passion to Action Unschooling family of four: Clan of Parents This family...

Permission to Relax

I’m starting to think that when all the work of preparing for serenity becomes stressful, I’m doing something wrong.  Shouldn’t serenity be one of those things that you don’t have to prepare for?  Can’t I find serenity and then expect the logistics to fall into place BECAUSE I’m serene? After a...

Unschooling

“I guess my ideal educational system would be a society in which knowledge was widely free and widely and freely shared, and children were everywhere trusted, respected, safe, valued, and welcomed . . . I think practically anything we do to help is mostly going to be harmful except for very...

Goodnight Moon

Annabelle brings this book to me and makes her request noise, “Dee? Dee?” “In the great green room there was a telephone, and a red balloon…” And her face lights up and she swings her short legs with excitement. We have several good books which she loves, but we could read...

What About Family?

This is the big question for us.  Family is what brought David and I to Clearwater years ago, which was a lucky thing because that’s where we met and fell in love.  Family is what has kept us in Florida for seven or so years, even though neither of us actually...