Last Friday we had our second edition of our Documentary and Discussion group. The snow was blowing, the pizza took two hours to arrive, but did it quell our appetite for pertinent polemics? Of course not. Though my children greeted the prospect of the evening with a very loud rolling of the eyeballs, they gotContinue reading “Documentary and Discussion Episode 2: Play Again”
Monthly Archives: February 2012
YA Reading Continued…
To complete my feverish reading for a potential all school-read, I read two more titles. To recap, the books had to fit the criteria below: 1. Under 350 pages. 2. No movie version 3. An appropriate read for grades 7 to 11 (I know. Kind of impossible, right?) 4. Has themes that can be discussedContinue reading “YA Reading Continued…”
Miss Representation: A round table discussion with our girls
On Thursday night, J and I took our girls (along with a couple of friends and their daughters) to a screening at McGill of the film Miss Representation, a documentary about how women are portrayed in the media. It was hosted by Media@McGill and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies and it costContinue reading “Miss Representation: A round table discussion with our girls”
On having a daughter who just turned 13
I forgot to post last week. Well, I didn’t forget to post, I just didn’t. I wanted to write a pithy post perhaps peppered with wisdom about having an official teenager. (I will not apologize for my propensity for alliteration. I will not) But I have nothing. No wisdom. No advice. Nothing to say. JustContinue reading “On having a daughter who just turned 13”
Lina Branter 