To Stephen McNeil:
I’m pretty fed up, so let’s just get right to it.
We all get that your script says for you to repeat the phrase “we continue to invest in classrooms.” We get it. Every single question someone asks...
Imagine I’m at a retreat for people with peanut allergies, and that the absolute worst, deadliest thing that could enter that retreat is a peanut butter sandwich, because that sandwich could kill every single person there in five minutes.
So...
The world didn’t end last weekend. If you’re reading this, you’ve dodged the apocalypse yet again.
September 23 came and went and you, like me, still have to pay your bills, walk your dog, and fold your laundry. That Saturday...
After raining for what seemed like weeks and having to cover my flowers to protect them from overnight frost, the other day I woke up to beautiful weather.
In fact, by the time I pulled into my driveway after work,...
As this piece goes to print, I will be
acknowledging my one year “keto-versary,” as the Internet calls it. August 6,
2018 was the day I officially cut sugar and carbs out of my diet.
The...
Let me see if I can take some of the 40-plus readers back to elementary school.
Gone are the days when almost all the teachers were women, when we had religion class every Thursday morning, when altar servers were excused...
It was bound to happen. It was only a matter of time before somewhere, sometime, somehow, the universal disease of self-aggrandizement combined with our unnerving penchant for voyeurism to produce tragedy.
I read a lot of terrible things on-line, but...
I’m a firm believer in hard work; in actual labour, putting in your hours and your nose to the grindstone.
We are born with a certain amount of talent and brains which can be molded and improved, but the factor...
It is exhausting being worried and stressed out about the state of the world all the time, isn’t it?
I have been consumed with news since the beginning of this year, even more so than usual. Between the teachers’ labour...
On my days off, after I get my people off to school and
work, I feed the dog, turn on the TV for background noise, and drink coffee
alone in my living room. As a married, working mother with...