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I asked the Mamas on my Facebook page and on Twitter to let me know in three words or less what “MOTHER” meant to them. This is what they had to say… . . . . . Happy Mother’s Day to all of the most...
View ArticleTesting, testing
Just a quick little post to see if this is working properly. I just enabled WordPress on my iPhone so that I can write my posts all weekend from the hill at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. And I also...
View Articlefolk fest friends
At 11 o’clock at night when I am taking down my tent in the dark, at least one of my children is having a meltdown of epic proportions and you see me trudging back up to the South Gate at the top of...
View Articleno words, just song
We came, we danced, we sang, we drank, we made new friends and visited with old ones. Today we have an Edmonton Folk Music Festival hangover! Until next year my Folkies!! Love and love and love,...
View ArticleJust ask the Tweety-box!
There are days when I really do turn to Twitter to make decisions. {Please tell me I am not the only one who does this!} Today was one of those days. I was in Chapter’s with the kids, picking up a...
View ArticleWordless Wedne… Um Thursday.
OK fine, I am just too darn tired to actually write a whole bunch tonight. I just got back from a block party meeting. Which means that, YES, I am finally making some friends in our new neighbourhood!...
View ArticleA good day
Today I got up early. Got the kids ready, got myself ready, walked the dog, made myself a smoothie and was out the door by 8:00AM. I know what you are thinking… Dry run for school next week right?...
View ArticlePhase one
Yesterday, I signed up for my first writing course. It is an online course being taught by the awesome Alice Bradley of FinSlippy fame. I have been a big FinSlippy fangirl for quite a while now and...
View ArticleThe #good100 experiment
About a month ago I had a very long and interesting conversation on Twitter with a few people whom I respect and admire. At the end of this convo (which, in case you are wondering, was about gender...
View ArticleMirror, mirror on the wall…
OK. I have had enough. No, not of parenting or motherhood or the never ending to-do lists that exist in my head and on my fancy new iPhone 5. Although that is a lot and it has been a full moon week. I...
View Articlemotherhood mountaineering
Why is it that every few months someone gets it in their head to go on a rant against motherhood? It’s as if these people forget that they actually have mothers and in most cases are themselves mothers...
View Article430,000.00 Silver Linings
I am exhausted. A really good exhausted. Today I spent the whole day moving my butt, shaking my groove thang and busting some moves with over 400 other people at the 2nd annual Bust a Move for Breast...
View ArticleAn interview with Lesléa Newman: Feminism, diversity, freedom
Last night, my husband and I watched the movie, Jeff, Who Lives at Home. It is a poignant little film that explores the concept that everything happens for a reason, something that I have long...
View ArticleWhen the landscape changes, so must we
I wasn’t going to read it. There has been so much in the news and on blogs and all over the internets about the Steubenville rape case that I was just not going to read another article that would A)...
View ArticleHow to be a proper “mommy blogger”.
I have just finished watching all three first seasons of Downton Abbey. It took about three episodes of season one to hook me, but after that I was a goner. It really is a very well written, acted and...
View ArticleFeminism: A myriad of differences.
I was about to write “it’s a tough time to be a feminist” as the opening line to this post and then I realized where I am, WHO I am, what year it is and I gave my head a good shake. In the past few...
View ArticleTime to grow up: My thoughts on urban sprawl
Last night I watched an episode of ‘House Hunters‘ on HGTV Canada. The hunters in question, pregnant with their first child, and living in a 650 sq. foot 1 bedroom apartment, were looking to buy a new...
View ArticleOn transparency: More thoughts on our municipal election.
One of my favourite movies of the past few years is ‘Get him to the Greek’. I am pretty sure I did not stop laughing for the whole 109 minutes of it’s raunchy, terribly inappropriate,...
View ArticleKnock Knock Little Sucker: aka ‘What I learned at Blissdom Canada.’
Blogging conferences are funny things. They are full of opportunity. They are fun. They are chalk full of women {and men} who are looking for connections and who are, for the most part, notorious...
View Article“Likes” don’t save lives: #UNICEFDay 2013
Halloween is upon us and when it comes to this childhood tradition, like many things in my life, I am a purist. I like to encourage my kids to think outside the box (or racks) of traditional...
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