Wave the Stick

On Sunday I dug out my old keyboard and set it up in The Imp's room. He's played it constantly since.

In a nutshell: not as much fun as you'd think. Before Thursday at 2:00 am, I'd never come face to face with croup before. That...

Striving for lucidity in between croupy sleepless nights on Seizure Watch 2010 with The Imp, I've been doing a little thinking as Earth...

I was looking through some old photos yesterday and stumbled across this one. Me, the morning of my wedding. My friend Heather caught a fina...

My sister-in-law is celebrating her 50th birthday today. I'm the designated birthday-cake-maker in the family, so this morning I was up...

Recently I decided it was time to quit mucking about and get back into some semblance of physical activity. I started on Monday, bicycling w...

Pictures of my dad & my son as metaphor for the process of starting my own business: Gee, Grampa, I don't know if I'm sure about...

Some new names added to the Blogs I Love list on the right: Pregnant Stephanie , no longer pregnant, has set up shop at The Tsunami Mommy. I...

Well, it's 5am and I'm up, so... A friend's 6 year old daughter & the Imp of the Perverse enjoying the view of Stanley Park ...

It's been more than three months since my last blog post. No excuse, but it's been a busy three months. I learned my job had evapora...

We really are all about the hats in this family

Okay, so yesterday I did the Walk for Kids Help Phone . Like seven kinds of idiot, I left my camera at home. Fortunately my team mates broug...

“Your rack is shrinking.” Said my husband, the poet, the other night as I was undressing for bed. And it’s true. The Boobs of Doom, we named...

I have started and deleted this post a half-dozen times. I lack the skill to convey what I want to say. Tuesday, via Twitter, I learned for ...

Alas, the Bumbo seat is no longer an adequate means of restraint. I knew this day would come, but I'm not really ready for it, in the s...

You know you're a mom when you are breastfeeding your baby, enjoying a laid back morning, and the sun is streaming in through the window...

I was a breech baby , born by scheduled caesarean section. My dad, for years, kept forgetting my birthday because he thought they’d chosen t...

Top 6 reasons why you should buy these shoes right now: 6. They're made in North America. To steal from this website : They're made...

In the last few weeks, I’ve been reading a series of books that have made me angry . So it was a pleasure to tuck into this lovely little ...

The British call them dummies . And that is how I was inclined to think of them, back in my pre-parenting days. None of this new age North A...