My toddler Max is a funny little fellow. Lately he walks around all day humming songs out loud. I guess he is actually singing, but to us it sounds like humming because he doesn’t actually use real words. He just loves — LOVES — songs. So, if he is feeling a bit grouchy, or if you are changing his diaper [...]
Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
March 29th, 2010
Sharing stories
There’s been a great deal of interesting and intelligent debate — as well as some yelling, screaming and posturing of course — about woman and blogs as of late. In one situation, some “mommy” bloggers were put under the academic microscope, while in others, the mainstream media snickered at mothers and their interest in blogging and, strangely, pronounced that women didn’t blog, only men.
People I know [...]
March 23rd, 2010
I’m still thinking about hyper-parenting
Hyper-parenting. You might remember that a little while back, I wrote a post sparked by the CBC documentary Hyper Parents and Coddled Kids. And I’m still thinking about it.
The whole concept of hyper-parenting is never really far from my mind, actually. It’s something that I consciously, actively want to avoid doing to my children. And yet, it seems we live [...]
March 6th, 2010
Extra! Extra! Read all about it …
Good morning! If you don’t normally buy an Ottawa Citizen newspaper, pick one up today to support not only your local paper but this caffeine-needy writer!
In today’s Travel Section, I have two articles for your morning coffee:
#1: What a woman wants: how hotels can cater better to women business travellers and a list of hotels going all out to do [...]
March 3rd, 2010
Excuse me, but you’re stepping on my Canadian pride
An open letter to Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney:
I don’t ever remember a time when I did not feel proud to be a Canadian. It’s similar in fierceness to the pride I’ve always felt for my family. It runs right to the core.
I drink my Double-double’s at Timmys, I buy my backpack from MEC and I bite my [...]
February 17th, 2010
Olympic dreaming? Not a chance.
In a world where parents are increasingly beginning to question the benefits of overscheduling their children in organized activities, the Olympics reaches right into a parent’s heart and makes you want to fire up that mini-van and start signing cheques. Almost. {read more}
February 13th, 2010
That was kinda sucky, wasn’t it?
I hate to say it, for fear of sounding unpatriotic, but Canada’s opening ceremonies for the Olympics was kinda, well, sucky. Starting with the snowboarder entry that was cheesy and far too long. In fact, most of it just seemed like it went on too long for its own good.
So much so that when K.D. Lang launched into crooning her melancholy lyrics:
Your faith was [...]
February 5th, 2010
Hyper Parents & Coddled Kids
Did you catch this CBC documentary yesterday?
I got a heads-up from Ann Douglas’ blog at parentcentral.ca that it was coming and I was intrigued. In her review, Douglas concludes that this “hyper-parenting” phenomenon is largely a thing of the past:
The documentary is worth watching, if only as a reminder of where we’ve been and how far we’ve come in rejecting the [...]
February 4th, 2010
An Interesting Human: Dr. Basil Donovan
For my new gig over at Life As A Human, I have my first in a series of “interesting human” profiles posted today!
It features Dr. Basil Donovan, who was a member of a committed coalition of medical professionals, homosexuals, sex workers, nuns, drug addicts and politicians that “broke the law, offended everyone, and saved tens of thousands of lives” when AIDS [...]
February 1st, 2010
Life As A Human has launched!
So, today is the big day! Life As A Human, the Canadian-based e-zine I was telling you about in my last post has now launched.
I really had no idea how it was all going to come together or who the other writers were — it was a bit of a leap of faith to sign-on as a contributor. As you [...]
January 29th, 2010
My head is really big
My head is so big, it’s practically toppling off my neck at the moment. Here’s why:
An unexpected shout-out!
I like to poke around Girl about O-town’s blog because she always seems to know what new funky things are going on around Ottawa. Not the same ol’ stuff — fresh, interesting stuff! I love admiring great design — paper, home, web — and as it [...]
January 28th, 2010
A pelvic exam without my consent?
As you know, I am now bopping around in Twitter checking it all out and making new friends, er, followers.
Today I started to notice some tweets about women having pelvic exams done to them while they are unconscious in the hospital. Like many bits of way too information that I let into my day, I let it go into my [...]
January 3rd, 2010
A Blogger’s 2009 in Review
Like a fun game of tag, I am going to follow after Andrea and do a Blogger’s 2009 in Review.
Here’s what you do. Just take the first line of the first post of every month and repost them in one big post.
I started blogging in June of this year (and already changed the layout 3 times!). So here’s how mine [...]
December 26th, 2009
Onward & upward! 250 of the best places to stay, cities to see and finds worth finding in 2010
The Christmas frenzy is now over and I love looking forward to a fresh new year full of possibilities.
To get yourself dreaming for the year ahead, check out today’s Ottawa Citizen’s Travel Section (print). Laura Robin, the paper’s Travel Editor, does an annual roundup of “best lists” — 250 of the best places to stay, cities to see and finds worth finding.
In [...]
