Last week was my eldest daughter’s ballet concert. Now, she has been doing ballet since she was five- nay- she has been dancing since she was two, and it consisted of her flailing her arms and running around the community centre gym. My youngest daughter also dances (she started out with ballet but quickly turnedContinue reading “What Not To Do At Your Child’s Dance Show”
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3 Arguments to Give my Daughters in Favour of Feminism
It is Sunday morning at 8:45. The family is asleep and I am sweltering in my little writer’s corner (the Habitat my husband built for me) listening to CBC and drinking that all important first cup of coffee. For the first time in a few weeks, I don’t have anything urgent I need to getContinue reading “3 Arguments to Give my Daughters in Favour of Feminism”
Thoughts on Saleema Nawaz’s Bone & Bread and Other Random Musings
I have been meaning to write this post for about a month but alas my old nemesis Time has decided to run away from me. Two jobs and an editing process that has gone from a “new coat of paint and refinish the floors” job to a “let me take a wrecking ball to theContinue reading “Thoughts on Saleema Nawaz’s Bone & Bread and Other Random Musings”
On Practicing Confidence
It has been a while since I have written a straight out, Day in the life post, and I’m feeling the itch of a random musing coming on. What has been on my mind for a while is confidence. Why do some people have it and some people don’t? This last birthday season has leftContinue reading “On Practicing Confidence”
Vacations Are Good: Part III
The Bike path beside the drainage ditch where I would run. I was waiting for a drag race like in Grease or a good ol’ fashion Terminator truck chase but alas, it was empty and barren but for the reams of styrofoam take-out containers shored at the water level. Wednesday: Shopping on Melrose, Lunch atContinue reading “Vacations Are Good: Part III”
Vacations Are Good: Part II
Yep. Las Vegas summed up in a creamer. I mean non-dairy product…. Or how J puts it: “The closer you look, the less real it gets.” Suffice it to say he was not impressed with the sets. Who painted that faux wood grain on the beams at the Palazzo? They should be fired. But ifContinue reading “Vacations Are Good: Part II”
Vacations are Good: Part 1
What shameful negligence. It has been over a month since I have posted anything on this blog, and over two months since I’ve posted anything but book reviews. But March Break is over, I have dealt with the crappy bureaucracy one needs a couple of week days to deal with, and I have gained aContinue reading “Vacations are Good: Part 1”
Book Review: Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Across the Universe by Beth Revis Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger on the Godspeed, a ship that has left Earth in order to find another habitable planet. She is a non-essential, simply along for the ride with her parents. She should wake up 300 years later when the Godspeed has landed on Centauri-Earth, theirContinue reading “Book Review: Across the Universe by Beth Revis”
Book Review: The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston
There are some books that you do an unkindness to when you read them too fast. I think this might be one of those books. Although I love thinking about physics, especially the quantum kind, I don’t have a physics brain. Or a math brain. Or a very practical brain in general. But I understandContinue reading “Book Review: The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston”
Book Review: Bride of New France
Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers Laure Beauséjour was taken from her beggar parents by the Paris authorities when she was just seven years old and placed in the Salpêtrière, a catch all institute for poor, sick, mentally ill, or criminal women (and by criminal read prostitutes). She was lucky enough to spend aContinue reading “Book Review: Bride of New France”
Lina Branter 