July 2011

The Science of Evil and Empathy

July 30, 2011




The front page of today’s Globe and Mail jumped out at me. “Can science really explain evil?” the headline asked.  As an atheist and believer in the principles of attachment parenting, I was intrigued by both the question and the double-barreled definition of evil that accompanied it. evil [ee-vuhl] – adjective 1. morally wrong or [...]

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Flower Girl and Ring Bearer (Wordless Wednesday)

July 27, 2011




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Quotable: Being a ‘traditional’ man can be dangerous

July 24, 2011




The featured topic in the July/August 2011 issue of New Internationalist is “The changing face of masculinity.” In the first article, “Cooking up a Storm”, author Nikki Van Der Gaag shares some interesting statistics: Being a ‘traditional’ man is risky business. A national survey of adolescent males 15 to 19 in the US found that [...]

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Perceptions

July 23, 2011




“Nobody played with me all day,” he says as I’m lying with him at bedtime. Sometimes he may be right, because of the nature of what was on our agenda that day or simply because he opted for solo activities instead. Sometimes, however, it sounds like an exaggeration at best and a slap in the [...]

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Powerless

July 19, 2011




You may be wondering where I’ve been and why I haven’t written anything. For a few days I was busy, for a few days the weather was glorious, and now, for the past 50 hours, I have been without power. Yes, without power. The same storm that knocked over the main stage at Ottawa’s Blues [...]

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Conferences, Conferences…

July 14, 2011




Looks like I’m entering conference season. I think I’ll be at about one conference per month from July through to November. I hope to catch up with some of you at some of the conferences that I’m attending. Women’s Worlds Women’s Worlds is a huge international feminist conference that is held in a different city [...]

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A Perfect Summer Day

July 9, 2011




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Fuel for Human Bodies: Our Complex Relationship with Food

July 7, 2011




This is a post about families and food, poverty and privilege, accessibility and convenience, taste and nutrition,  consumerism and profit, affordability and sustainability. This is a post about our complex relationship with the way we fuel our bodies that cannot begin to do the topic justice. Healthy eating? Whose responsibility is it? You’ve heard it [...]

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No Cry It Out: 3 Years Later

July 5, 2011




Three years ago today, I wrote what has become the most viewed and the most popular post on this blog. I wrote the post, Cry it Out (CIO): 10 Reasons Why it is Not for Us, after years as a message board moderator where we would post lists and lists of links over and over [...]

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