Last night over dinner, we played a game of Would-You-Rather. It’s less stressful than watching all stages of the digestive process in action. The premise of Would-You-Rather is simple: you give one person a choice of two equally tempting options. Kind of like would you rather snog George Clooney or Colin Firth? Only this is […]
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Thing 1 & Thing 2's Excellent Adventure: Stop 6=Bay Area
Stop 6: Bay Area, California Host: Lizz Distance Logged Since Calgary: 9008 kms/5587 miles Next Stop: Saint Paul, Minnesota After their stop in Georgia, Thing 1 and Thing 2 decided to fly to the west coast, where they visited Lizz in California. Lizz blogs at Am I a Funny Girl? about her life with her […]
The 3 Types of Halloween Families
It’s the weekend before my children’s teeth fall out. Yes, Halloween. And I’ve compiled some heavy-duty anthropological research. To earn a mail-order PhD, I was originally going to research potato chip flavours of the world. Instead, I have crunched data, classifying people into 3 types of Halloween families. This was the topic of my humor […]
Announcing a New Chapter in My Writing Career
Four years ago in August 2007, I filled out a Teacher’s Professional Growth Plan at work. My goal was to write. So I joined a writers’ group and read books on writing. And I did something even more radical for me: I wrote. Fast forward two years to October 2009. My friends Trish and Elena […]
My Weekend in Tweets
Subtitle 1: Too Lazy-a$$ed To Write a Real Post Subtitle 2: Has Anyone Seen My Sense of Humour? It’s not much of a secret that I was at the Surrey International Writers’ Conference (#SiWC2011) this past weekend. I’ll blog more about the wow factor when I become coherent. With any luck, that will occur before […]
Daughters, Bad Breath, and Losing It
I’m pleased to bring you my first ever Whiteboard Wednesday Guest Post. Chad Jones is a hilarious dad of two who I suspect sticks his foot in his mouth nearly as often as I do. He blogs about the bizarre (and slightly-less-bizarre) aspects of faith as well as being both a dad and husband. The […]
Top Eight Reasons Not To Eat a Dog
I’ve been sick this week, not from eating dog, though that would be a nice example of cause-and-effect. Suffice it to say that my brain has been one gig short of a gigabyte. Still, I decided to do some grading. My Grade 8 students are near the end of a humour unit. Their penultimate assignment […]
Children in Cages
I’m sitting on our couch after work, one of those long days when 89% of my brain has already been sacrificed to middle school students. William is doing what he does best: babble incessantly about a fantasy world as though it’s more natural than Pamela Anderson’s breasts. Which it is. Will is holding his latest […]
Happy Thanksgiving, eh?
It’s Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend. Because we follow the metric system, our holiday comes earlier than our American neighbo(u)rs. The metric system also explains why Canada is colder than the US, why the Flames will beat the Penguins on Saturday night, and why Justin Bieber’s career will be over in 2016. If you want to […]
13 Rugby Phrases That Sound Dirty But Aren't
It’s the Rugby World Cup, an international competition that lasts over a month, during which time I see my husband for about 27 minutes. I have fond memories of the Rugby World Cup. I have heaps of overseas mates who are passionate about the sport. Much of their passion wore off on us, as we’d […]