Goodnight laundry (a bedtime story)
Parenting today was letting my teething four month old gnaw on my knuckles. And sleep on my body like I was a piece of furniture.… Read More »Goodnight laundry (a bedtime story)
Parenting today was letting my teething four month old gnaw on my knuckles. And sleep on my body like I was a piece of furniture.… Read More »Goodnight laundry (a bedtime story)
I have this friend who likes to repel down waterfalls. Or underwater. Or something. She has an adventurous spirit. When you take the Quistic test to… Read More »Personality paradox and another reason to practice yoga
This book makes an epic (and sort of amusing) claim: tidying up will change your life. Author Marie Kondo has built her life around a passion for putting… Read More »The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (against all odds, the claim is real)
The house is full of blankets, most of them small. They are strewn about and grabbed up at random, for tucking tiny feet into car… Read More »How to be present
The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie has announced that he has terminal brain cancer. And that the Hip will be doing one final farewell tour. This… Read More »Listen
I was thinking about sharing my thoughts. “Everything I need to know I learned from parenting my three week old baby”. Or something like that.… Read More »Re-sizing your world
Note: this is a real birth story. Some may find it graphic. First off, I am no longer pregnant. Now I am a mother. Which… Read More »And so it begins (a birth story)
It’s Christmas. It’s the last quiet Christmas morning for a while, since as of March 2016 we – we who were blithely two – we… Read More »Sanctuary