My son’s Christmas wish list sure is different than it was a few years ago.
I get it, I get it. He’s older now, and doesn’t have any use for dinkies, or Transformers, or robotic dinosaurs, or even sleds. Most...
Apparently I live a cluttered life, or so I’ve been led to believe by the barrage of e-mails, advertisements, podcasts, webinars, and TV shows reminding me that closets need to be organized, countertops need to be cleared, and drawers...
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...
To continue from last week, the last few days of my vacation were spent at theme parks.
It was information overload in trying to figure out the difference between Universal and Disney. I was very curious about the lay-out of...
“Why can’t you wait until I’m dead?” my grandmother would laugh, half joking and half annoyed.
“Don’t talk like that! You’re not dead, you’re here to tell me what can be thrown out. If this place ever caught fire, it’d...
It’s sad that it’s come to this.
A Houston high school has notified families that it’s
implementing a dress code – but not for the kids, for the adults. Apparently
parents haven’t been making good wardrobe...
The first request came two weeks ago. My friend from
university wrote in our group chat that her daughter’s middle school choir was
hosting a fundraiser. (Wait! Didn’t school just start?)
She informed us – or...
As promised, I’m going to continue my account of my recent family vacation to Florida.
Our first stop was Seaworld Orlando. The resort itself was pretty nice, and there were some neat attractions and exhibits. There were intermittent downpours all...
I know the dieting drill. Find a trendy new diet, go to the grocery store, buy food that tastes like cardboard, then hunker down with a lonely little bag of mini-carrots and wait for the pounds to melt away....
The coronavirus looms over us, Canadian politics is in
turmoil, and Facebook posts
underscore the increasing divisions in our country, but – and I think this is a
big exception to the barrage of depressing news – Canadians love to...