From the category archives:
My partner is a stay-at-home dad and he sometimes fills me in on the deep conversations he has during the day with our little girl. Ones like this:
Emma: Daddy, what are you thinking about?
Daddy: I’m thinking about putting the tiles on the backsplash. What are you thinking about?
Emma: I’m always thinking about princesses.
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Language is a powerful thing. I sometimes object to other people’s choice of words. They sometimes object to mine. We let words impact us and give them power they may or may not have earned. There are words that cut like a knife and words so powerful and so objectionable that they really shouldn’t be [...]
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Earlier this week, Canada welcomed a new hero into its hearts. Not only the winner of our first gold medal during these Olympics, but the winner of the first Olympic gold ever won by a Canadian on Canadian soil, and a genuine good human being too. Alexandre Bilodeau is just the type of person I [...]
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For single people, Valentine’s Day is often society’s cruel way of shoving their singleness in their face. For couples, it is filled with expectations and pressure to spend money to prove how romantic you are. For those reasons, I’ve never been a big fan. But as a parent, it brings on new meaning. The spirit [...]
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Remember what your parents told you? Remember what your teachers told you? No one can touch you down there without your consent. Turns out, someone forgot to tell our country’s medical professionals.
Yesterday, I was sitting in a middle-aged male client’s cubicle discussing a project we are working on, when tweets from @sassymonkey started popping up [...]
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Just as when we were little, the kids got new pyjamas and settled down with the jolly white bearded guy (that’s my dad, otherwise known as Grandpa Santa Claus) for a reading of Twas the night before Christmas.
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I’m taking a little bloggy vacation this week and letting you all be entertained by some of my favourite bloggers. This is a guest post by Arwyn from Raising My Boychick, whose blog I profiled here a while back.
I am conflicted when it comes to Christmas. I sort of love it, with a passion fueled [...]
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This is day four of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on.
Featured Post – Please don’t label me
I loved this image featured in Going around [...]
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