Leanne Shirtliffe

Poetry | Humour | Picture Books

On the Move

Wednesday Quick Click

It’s Wednesday Quick Click. Check out my two latest posts at Nickelodeon’s NickMom.com by clicking on the photos below: Happy Wednesday. Evidently mine will involving doing some laundry and cleaning my purse. Oh, and if you’re looking to put off your own laundry and cleaning, vote for me here:

Disney World, minus the kids

When I was ten, my parents abandoned me to go to California for two weeks. They even went to Disneyland. I barely recovered. Like all good families that are unalike*, I repeated this process in Florida. I wrote about it in my latest humour column for The Calgary Herald. It begins like this: ` You […]

How To Entertain Children (or Yourself) on Car Trips

Nothing says fun like driving 800 miles with twins in a hatchback. My latest humour column for The Calgary Herald deals with this adventure. Here’s the beginning: My family of four recently completed a drive across the prairies in our small hatchback. My husband had packed the hatch like our gear was Jenga blocks: pulling […]

How the Tooth Fairy Can Ruin Your Life

We’ve had some tooth fairy adventures in our house recently. I wrote about them in my humor column that appeared in yesterday’s Calgary Herald. Here’s the beginning: My twins are at that stage when they lose things, such as their lunch bags, their mother’s sanity, and their teeth. We’ve lost so many canines in our […]

Guilty Mother Syndrome: a humor column

My brain cells have taken an early vacation. Although I teach middle school until the end of the month, I seem to be doing things like putting the milk in the cupboard and losing my keys five minutes after I’ve found them. Somehow, though, I can still find the energy to feel guilty, the subject […]

WANA Join Me?

There are few people who are as good at developing community online for writers as Kristen Lamb, a gun-slinging, quad-riding, social media Texan Jedi. Now she and her business partner Ingrid Schaffenburg (think Obi-Wan with ballet training) have taken a giant leap forward and are developing a virtual cafe for creative people, be they artists, writers, […]

What You Don't Want Your Daughter To Say After Prom

It’s prom season. Maybe I’ll tell my prom story one of these days. It’s as cliche as they get. ~ But for now, please click over to Nickelodeon’s NickMom to read my latest attempt at humor. ~ ~ Top 9 Things Moms Don’t Want Their Daughters To Say After Prom Here’s a teaser: #7: “And […]

A Poem I Wrote When I Was 10

This past weekend, I found a yellow Hilroy notebook filled with bad poetry I wrote when I was ten. One of the poems was about my sister, Patti. I’ve posted A Poem for My Sister, circa 1981 at StuffKidsWrite.com. Get ready for political incorrectness…

Sexiness and Superheroes

A while ago, I wrote a post entitled What Makes Someone Sexy? Evidently, ParentsConnect, part of the big brand of Nickelodeon, liked some of the content because they’ve featured me as one of their Top Sexy Mamas. (Note to self: To feel more sexy as I write this post, I should likely change out of […]