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Wednesday’s Weekly Round Up
You’re busy; I’m busy. Let’s just jump right into this week’s reviews and suggestions, shall we? First off, I urge everyone who loves modern Greek literature, but especially those who are interested in...
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Wednesday’s Weekly Round Up: TV season finales pt. 1 (bonus book review...
You GUYS! It’s mid-May for God’s sake. My last post was, like, 3 blurry weeks ago. I am of the belief that May and June are busier than Christmas, what with the soccer and the recitals and the birthday...
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Thoughts on the “New Greece”: A review of Gazmend Kapllani’s A Short Border...
This is not a new book, but one I am glad to have discovered. Gazmend Kapllani was one of the roughly 700,000 Albanians to cross the border from the former communist country into Greece in the 1990s....
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Season Finales Review Part 2: Vampire Diaries, Scandal, Grimm & Nashville
The Vampire Diaries: Look, stop judging me by my TV choices. I know this is a CW show, and I know that teenagers are primarily into that station and its production but even the most highbrow among us...
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Dear Internet:
Dear Internet, Has it really been almost 20 years since we met? How do you stay so young, so fresh? I remember our first encounter so well. It was 1994. I was writing a paper on Michel Foucault for my...
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Weekly Round Up!
It’s been pouring rain where I am this last week, and most of my favourite shows are now on hiatus (though I’m looking forward to Arrested Development!), which has meant more movies and reading. Here’s...
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Bye, Bye Babies: Coming to Terms with the End of Reproduction
I originally posted this back in March, but due to some technical issues it disappeared (er…I accidentally deteleted it). And so she doesn’t feel left out when I write about her brothers soon, I’m...
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Weekly Pop-Culture Round Up: Game of Thrones, Mad Men and Don’t Lick the Minivan
So – Game of Thrones, hey? Even friends who don’t watch the show were amused by the reactions of their fan-friends on Twitter and Facebook. I am not worrying about spoiling the last two eps for you...
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How I Learned the Facts of Life from a Grade 6 Head-Banger
I learned about periods from an older cousin who handed me a pamphlet on menstruation that was part of the late elementary sexuality curriculum, back in the day when they still segregated boys from...
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Breastfeeding and The Sopranos: A Tribute of Sorts to James Gandolfini
I am not sure why I feel compelled to write about James Gandolfini. Other entertainers have passed and I haven’t necessarily felt like writing about them beyond the respectful tweet or two. It’s not...
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Flooded with Emotion: Calgary
So, for those of you who don’t know, I live in Calgary, Alberta which, along with our beloved neighbouring towns here in Southern Alberta, were devastated by the worst flood in history. Our city was...
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My First Blog Award: Bouquet of Three
So, I have taken a it of a break from blogging over the summer because, well, kids. And houseguests. The combination of which means more (mostly happy) noise and less time for finessing commas and en...
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40 is not the new 30: A Post on the Eve of my Birthday
So, I’ve completely slacked off this summer what with houseguests and vacations and all that kid noise, but I’m back at it and have a very important reason to blog today. In less than 2 hours I will...
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Weekly Roundup – The Summer’s End Edition
Well, hello there. So, as I’ve mentioned before, summer = slacking where this blog and everything else was concerned. But I’m back at it, and so I present my quick and dirty weekly round-up, which is...
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Weekly Round Up: The Mindy Project, Junot Diaz and Book Lists
Happy Wednesday everyone! It’s rainy and cold here after a solid month of above average temps and sunshine and I’m using it to clean out files I’ve been holding onto forever, which is also kind of...
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Let’s Talk!
So, this article on how talking with your kids is one of the most important things you can do to lead them to academic and personal success in life kind of made my day. Forgive the inflammatory...
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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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