Hi, I'm Pam Laricchia. Welcome! I'm living joyfully and unschooling (since 2002) alongside my wonderful family. Hubby and I have three terrific kids and home is a five acre plot of protected wetland and cedar forest in Ontario, Canada that we have dubbed Alternate Universe. You can contact me at pam@livingjoyfully.ca. Thanks for getting in touch and I'll get back to you as soon as I'm able. Please be patient though, it's a pretty fun-filled and busy life!

If you'd like to read some detail about my journey to unschooling, check out the introduction excerpt from my book, Free to Learn.

Living Joyfully is my website, this website. I've written quite a bit about unschooling over the years, hoping to help those searching for information or inspiration. It's organized around the level of unschooling experience of the reader, in an attempt to provide the most helpful information to each reader.

In the articles section, my previously published articles and conference talks are available to read for free. And if you have an e-reader, I pulled the articles together in an ebook that you can download from here as well. The website is also home to a couple of Anne Ohman's terrific articles.

Free to Learn is my first book! In it, I discuss the five ideas, or paradigm shifts, that I found most helped me understand unschooling.

To keep up with my more regularly-scheduled writing, head over to my blog. Here I'll definitely be writing about unschooling and my thoughts and experiences. I may also write about other interests of mine over time. I will definitely categorize and tag my posts so readers can easily filter out ones they may not be interested in reading.

Toronto Unschooling Conference is my conference website. For six years I hosted an unschooling conference in and around Toronto, Canada. It is on hiatus for the foreseeable future . And I say hiatus because I have learned to never say never! In the meantime, I will keep all the historical conference info available: speakers, talk descriptions etc. All the talks were recorded over the years and they are still available for purchase for minimal cost at The Unschooler's Emporium.

Shine With Unschooling is the yahoo email list I co-moderate with a lovely group of women and where I write regularly. Founded by Anne Ohman it's a "joyful, positive, radical unschooling community that celebrates each and every child for the unique gifts they bring to the world."

And my profuse thanks go to my daughter Lissy who created, from my bare bones drawing, an amazing treasure map for the home page. From there, she also created the page headers you find throughout my website and blog. And the covers for both my book and my articles collection. She's a wonderful photographer and artist and if you'd like to enjoy more of her work you're welcome to check out her website, lissyelle.com. I created that website too! Based on her design, of course.

I think that about covers it!