Sometimes I can't figure out why my business still works.and then I remember the black paint (on walls, towels, rugs)the excitement of forbidden black permanent paint on their handsand the wet dirt coming into my house- not yours- during the monsoon season in Toronto (April 2011)and I think I get … [Read more...]
holding on and letting go
This morning I drove my16 year old to the airport for her first flight alone. She has done considerable travel both with family and with schoolmates/friends but never alone. She has a tight connection to make and a 45 minute presentation to deliver at the other end. Letting her go to this … [Read more...]
don’t you ever feel…
...like a little kid in an adult worldwith a fancy kitchenand all the latest appliancesand dress up clothesand your own wheelsand offspring, no lessand a pervasive worry that one day there will be someone knocking at your door with serious papers and a man in a trenchcoat with a file on … [Read more...]
Notes on infidelity-grass is grass
Infidelity has always existed. Lately it has created some steam within this blogging community.We all live by some deal breakers. In time and with some life experience, some of them are modified, even thrown out and some of them are held onto even more tightly. There are many things each of us … [Read more...]
piss me off- I am not married to an accountant
seriously -last week almost killed me I run my own business and there is a lonely staff of one. I am my own boss, my own assistant and my own sherpa. I am the marketing dept, the creative dept, the admin team and the person in charge of cleaning the coffee machine. I work in the mailroom and … [Read more...]
love bites
Sometimes when I spend time in the Kindergarten classrooms where I teach some of my classes, I think it is a perfect microcosm of real life.In this classroom, Annabelle LOVES Jack. Annabelle is my kind of girl. She makes it known. She is brave, if even a little foolish. Always over the top. … [Read more...]
uniform thoughts
When my youngest was three, everyday she wore a two piece dropped shoulder polyester peach coloured size 6 woman's outfit. The skirt was cut on the bias for excellent twirling. It was given to us along with many other wacky things by a favourite neighbour to put in our tickle trunk(dress up … [Read more...]
other people’s words-passing the baton
"Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it" Robert Brault … [Read more...]
what’s up, doc ?
There is a swift but sweet stage between 9 and 18 months where your toddler will walk by the coffee table and see Vogue magazine upside down and say "MOMMA!"You will say to yourself- what a clever and perfect child- she sees me as I am. Beautiful.(In my wrinkled clothes with spit up and … [Read more...]
never travel lightly
One of the best pieces of life advice recently sent to me is "never travel lightly". I did not need the advice but liked the affirmation. I travel HEAVY.She said you need to be ready for everything and anything life throws at you. And look good when life throws it at you.Also, I … [Read more...]
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