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How I Prepare to do Adult-Adulting, not just the Usual Adulting.

How I arm myself to face difficult conversations or situations.

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What is your on most eclectic mixed tape?

One morning this week, I had the house to myself. This is a rare and much appreciated happening. For the past two years, I’ve listened to audiobooks using earphones while…

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A day late and a dollar short, but I’m still here.

Mother's Day 2020; Quarantine-Style.

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All I can hope for is that he uses his talents for the greater good one day.

The strange, weird and wonderful things kids will do to a) freak out their parents b) get money c) deal with missing lost teeth.

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This is the price that I gladly pay for raising literate children.

We all know that reading to children increasing their vocabulary, encourages speech and language development and promotes healthy brain development. But did you know that it also creates unbreakable bonds…

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As it turns out that like my mother before me, elephants make me cry.

Long ago: When I was young, on Sunday nights at 6 p.m. on CBC (channel 5, cable 6 in Toronto), The Wonderful World of Disney would sometimes play a full-length…

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2018 Santa Claus Parades in the G.T.A. Annual List

Now that Halloween is out of the way, it is time for us to move on. The stores have been prepping us for months now (Black Friday in August –…

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The day when enough was enough, my girl came through.

This sign is now posted on our front door. As is happens, my eight-year-old decided to take matters into her own hands after being sequestered once again, with her brothers…

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Today is a good day

As an act of deviation from my usual modus operandi of bitching and moaning and generally wallowing in self-pity (and chocolate), I am here to share that today is a…

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Good bye, our Lucy

The Life and Times of our Lucy Liu, with us April 2012 – February 2018 When we bought this house in 2012, it came with cats. Like fourteen feral cats…

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