“So if Rissa were a lesbian and she had a girlfriend, would you let the girlfriend sleep over? You know, seeing as there’d be no threat of pregnancy?” asked David. “NO!!” The word came out even before I had time to reflect. I think I was a shocked as David. Heather, the liberal minded, had…
“He may only touch your boobs if he is doing it with two separate Swiffers held from the length of their poles.” My daughter is now of an age where there’s a real possibility that dudes will be touching her boobs. She has a boyfriend (whom I adore), but he’s still a teenaged boy with…
I woke up this morning and saw this in my backyard: Then out the kitchen window, looking east: And from our front window: I know that there are naysayers out there, who hate the snow, who grumble and pout at the first sight of it, but I’m not one of them. I love the first…
WARNING – THIS POST IS RATED R FOR LANGUAGE. Rissa saw her first R rated film when she was probably 10. Yep, we were those parents. The movie was Love Actually. You know the one… Richard Curtis’s quintessential feel-good Christmas film? Probably one of the sweetest holiday movies ever? The one where even the most…
Three days after she was born, Rissa came home from the hospital. I was adamant that she sleep in her crib. David was in a state of paternal panic. “But she… How will we… What if she?” Having spent the first three days after my c-section NOT sleeping in the hospital, I was nearly hysterical…
Step 1: Rent a 70 foot long inflatable obstacle race with 10 foot slide exit. Step 2: Let children know they can use it. Step 3: Turn your back for the briefest of moments. Beautiful bucolic fall day. Sun shining, birds singing, crisp air. As the inflatable sought form on the pavement, rosy-cheeked, tow-headed tots…
There were two girls, seven, maybe eight years old, on the sidewalk a couple of blocks ahead of us. They had a stick. They were moving something onto the road with the stick. Having walked down the road earlier that day, I knew that the thing they were moving into the road was a dead…
Wait! It’ll come to me! Some people do Sudoku. For others it’s crosswords. Still others, brain teasers. All to keep their minds sharp – build their reserves against dementia. My Dad, whose own father succumbed to Alzheimer’s, has a vested interest in keeping his brain in gear. He has a simple plan. It all centres…
Yes, you’re the #1 trending thing today, and you’re probably going to be getting all sorts of requests for late-night TV, so it’ll blind you for a bit to how extensive all this really was. And you’ll even say that you won’t lurk online and read stuff about yourself sweetie, but you will. …
We lived next door to a lady named Kay. She was in her 80s. One of those Europeans who, although she’d been in Canada for 50 years, still had her accent – just like my own Granny. Kay was effusive in welcoming us to the neighbourhood. We had to learn to lock our door during…