Sad news for those nostalgic for the Valentine’s Days of decades passed: those heart-shaped Sweetheart sugar candies that were so popular for so long, won’t be on store shelves this year. No “Be Mine” and “Kiss Me” printed messages...
I just finished reading yet another article about happiness.
I run into this subject at least once a week, usually some report on measuring our joy or quantifying it somehow. In this case, it was about how Canada – and...
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...
A few months ago I completed a task very impressive by my standards, something every parent means to do “one of these days”. I organized my kids’ old school work. All of it.
Maybe you have to have a kid...
There are lots of important stories in the news, about the U.S.-North Korea summit and the Stanley Cup playoffs, about flooding in New Brunswick and escalating tensions between Iran and Israel. I’m well aware of those, truly I am,...
My friend’s 5-year-old has been asking
her mother a lot of questions about heaven, not an unusual line of inquiry for
children trying to figure out how the world works. If adults wrestle with the
concept of an ever after,...
Perhaps it’s envy, or maybe it’s a simple by-product of age, but I’ve grown weary of stories about kids hitting it big (important note: I am at the age where everyone younger than me is referred to as a...
I don’t have any distinct style, never have. I wear what’s on sale, and it’s usually black.
One thing I am known for, though, is my shoes. I don’t like to wear socks, so I’m the person who will still...
I wanted a Cabbage Patch Kid so badly in 1984.
And not just regular, kid-level ‘want’, I mean I shed tears over this thing, crying to my parents about how I had to have one. I don’t ever remember asking...
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...