December 2009 – Lina Branter

What is home?

It hit me when the plane was beginning its descent into Vancouver. The dark, coniferous backside of the mountains, like prickly beasts dipping their large heads to drink from the ocean, seemed to pierce my heart with a longing I didn’t even know I had. The landscape was so familiar, so part of me. ItContinue reading “What is home?”

Boys already?

I want to talk about the new developments with one of my daughters, but I don’t know how to start. More and more, I am increasingly aware that I am airing my children’s laundry (clean or otherwise) in this blog and that is not my intention at all. What I really want to do isContinue reading “Boys already?”

The Drudgery of Parenthood

When my friend, who has a 4 year old and a 1 year old told me she was planning to go have some rescue martinis with a couple of friends and wanted to know if I wanted to come along, I jumped at the chance. First of all, it was on a Monday night, andContinue reading “The Drudgery of Parenthood”

Mean Girls

I had a conversation with my daughter a couple of days ago. It was one of those rare moments where we were alone in the house and it was particularly quiet and she felt like talking. I don’t even think it started with the usual prodding question, “so how are things going?” ( which, byContinue reading “Mean Girls”