Many of my well-meaning friends and relatives have tried quite hard (over the past 8+ years since I became vegan) to only buy/make vegan items for me and my family. Yet, there have been a few things which have regularly slipped through, despite their good intentions (and no, I have not eaten them or allowed them [...]
My family’s last several vacations have had a couple of specific destinations planned (conference to go to, friends we wanted to see, specific geological formations to view, etc.), but no set course for the rest of the trip. It is always exciting to me when this happens! It gives us flexibility to go off the [...]
I’ll admit it. It took me years to become a vegan. I just wasn’t one of those people who heard about factory farming and said, “Gee, I shouldn’t eat meat anymore.” It makes me feel a tinge of shame now, but for me, the only way to become a vegan permanently was to transition slowly. [...]
I recently came across a few tidbits of information about the state that I live in (Arizona): the average family income is $47,750 (and ~$20,000 for my area) and the median house price (for my town) is around $165,000. This begs the question: How can anyone afford to eat? This made me look at my [...]
In today’s technological climate, kids now are looking for new and exciting books to entertain them! Silly little books about cute puppies and kittens just aren’t enough for modern savvy readers. They want action, adventure, time travel, monsters, interactive books, and more. How is a vegan parent supposed to educate about veganism when our kids [...]
I’ve now been a full-fledged vegan for eight years. It was something that I wasn’t 100% committed to when I first started, unlike some newly converted vegans. What kept me vegan, and truly convinced me to stay vegan, was how amazingly healthy I felt for the first time in my life. I had no idea [...]
One of the first things I do when I try a new lifestyle or hobby is to go out into the world and find other people who are already successfully doing that very thing. There is nothing like gaining the knowledge of someone who has been where you currently are, at the beginning, and seeing [...]
I wasn’t planning on raising my children vegan. I wasn’t even planning on raising them vegetarian. I strongly believed that people needed protein for health and that animal meat was the only source of this. That is what I had been told when I was a child by my teachers, parents and extended family, doctors, [...]
There are plenty of reasons to be proud in the vegan community, so to celebrate this enthusiasm, my family and I wrote a little ditty about the ABCs of Vegan Pride. Feel free to sing it, if you are so inclined. A is for Adventurous, Animals, Amazing: Many people chose to be vegan in order [...]
With the winter holidays solidly upon us, as well as the end of the calendar year, many of us like to donate our money and our time to charities that do good around the world. This is great! As a compassionate person, it’s important to be aware that not all charitable organizations are equal. Some, [...]
Lisa is the author of the Wright on Time series of children's chapter books about an RV-living, vegan, homeschooling family who travels the USA. Lisa lives in southern Arizona with her family & cats.