I turn 39 today (technically around 8:30 tonight) and it’s got me thinking about being 13, and being 26. At 13 I was living at home with my mother and sister, grandparents around all the time, and our new puppy. I had just met the girl who would become my maid of honour. I was …
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I’m a writer. I have always been a writer – from the time I wrote a book of poems about pig and printed them out on our dot matrix along with a clip art cover. It’s what I do for work (and hopefully will continue to do). I’m good at it, it comes easily to …
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Soon I turn 39. It seems utterly absurd, because in my brain I’m not a grown up. My mental age is about 17, I think. But I also know I’m not 17 because I’ve been married for almost 13 years and I have a 10 year old daughter. I also have vivid memories of things …
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Last year I went to Cuba by myself. I went to an adults-only resort and spent a week doing whatever the hell I felt like doing. It was excellent and I needed it. This year we all needed it. So we booked a trip to Cuba – a week over the Family Day holiday weekend. …
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I was a bit emotional today as we hid the decade mark since I gave birth for the first and only time. I both vividly remember and have forgotten a lot about that day. The days in between than and now have gone too quickly and too slowly. From that day forward I have had …
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I have been trying very hard to care about Christmas this year. I have a 9 year old and she’s excited and I want her to be excited, but there is so much else that I want. I want certainty, but we only walk farther away from it. I want to be okay, but every …
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At the end of March we brought Frank the dog into our home. I found him while looking but not really looking for a rescue dog, because I wasn’t sure the family was ready for a dog that wasn’t Henry. But there he was. We drove all the way to Toronto to meet him and …
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We watched the Sesame Street 50th anniversary special tonight. Now I love Sesame Street. I love the Muppets. I love Jim Henson. All of these things were a major part of my childhood. These shows introduced me to so many things – not the least of which is my sense of humour. I still remember …
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I had two conflicting experiences online this past week and I’m trying to wrap my head around them. On the one hand, I was named by several people who I know, like and admire, as one of their list of inspiration women. Five lists of ten I was on. I felt like a fraud. I …
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I found out that it’s likely I’ll be sent to Toronto for work in the near future and I was thinking about that, and my dislike of the city, and that it’s good I’ll have a colleague to help me make sure I don’t get lost. And then I thought to myself – I haven’t …
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