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Sinead or Miley: Nothing Compares
*I started writing this post last night but then had to get to bed and was away from my computer until now. I’m sure a million blog posts have been written about this by now, but I’m actively avoiding...
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Sliver Lining Playbook for Sick Days
You know how some blog posts end up being just epic? Like really, really good? This isn’t going to be one of them. This one is a matter of just blogging about something because it’s been weeks since...
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Fostering Resilience in Children: An Excuse to Make my Kids do Greek Stuff
I’ve had a very Greek week with my kids (the culture not the college frat kind) and wanted to write about it. I talk a lot about being “Greek” in the post below, but wanted to clarify here that this is...
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Why I’m Wearing a Remembrance Day Poppy and Always Will
It’s early November, so in Canada that means Remembrance Day assemblies, WW 1 and 2 television programming on CBC and the History Channel, and of course, the annual Red Poppy campaign. I’m pretty sure...
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Weekly Round-Up: New TV shows, The Walking Dead, books and links
Things have gotten kind of heavy around this blog lately, so I think it’s high time I post a fluffy Weekly Round-Up of stuff that I’ve been amusing myself with. So, my fall schedule of TV shows is...
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The Elf on The Shelf, Foucault and Selfies: Normalizing the Surrender of Privacy
I don’t often have cause to use my undergrad political theory specialization, so when a postmodern philosophical thought hits me during my day-to-day, I get pretty excited. I was Christmas shopping the...
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Kids’ Christmas Gift Book Guide
That title, right? You really know what you’re getting with this post, people. There are only 12 days left til Christmas you guys! Basically I’m at the point where if I haven’t bought a gift yet and I...
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The Obligatory New Year’s, Get-Back-Into-It Post I’ve Been Intending to Write
I looked at the calendar today and IT’S ALREADY JANUARY 14! I’d say “Happy New Year,” dear readers, but January’s already, like, half-over. Already. And I haven’t blogged since before Christmas. I’d...
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Happy Pi Day! A parent’s perspective on new math vs. old math
Hey there – anyone still out there? If so, lemme wish you a happy Pi Day! (That’s 3.14 Pi, not fruit-filling-of-your-choice kind of Pie) And in honour of Pi Day, this first post back in awhile is going...
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Lean In to Bossy: Musings from a Bossy Lady
The word “bossy” and I go back a loooooong way. All the way back to Kindergarten, actually, when it first appeared on my report card. It pretty much showed up on every report card in elementary school...
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