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New blog! 9 Aug 2012 | 11:20 pm
The re-direct should be live soon, but until then I thought I'd let you know that the new blog is up and running and I am now posting over there!
Different and the Same 3 Aug 2012 | 07:09 pm
So my blog is moving, and I am excited and nervous at the same time. When I started this blog back at the end of 2009, I was a lonely conservative Christian with 3 kids under the age of 3 who had rec...
What the kids have been up to 31 Jul 2012 | 08:20 pm
Ms Action 5 1/2: "Mom, when I get big someday I am going to go to the dealership and get a Dodge Ram. They have really sweet engines, you should check them out. Then we could use it to haul stuff to ...
Learning to Fall 28 Jul 2012 | 03:50 am
I came across this excerpt recently and it moved me. It’s from Philip Simmon’s book called “Learning to Fall”, and it is written from his perspective as a 35 year old husband, father and teacher diagn...
Why I used to be afraid of Universal Health Care 25 Jul 2012 | 02:54 am
So, my post on health care has been getting some attention, (I encourage you to go read the diverse comments left over there) and the main question I seem to be getting again and again, is HOW did you...
Who I am 20 Jul 2012 | 05:29 am
Who am I? It’s a question that I started asking in earnest only a short time ago, and it seems like an endless process. It started with trying to figure out where I felt the most like me, the most at ...
Gentle Parenting Tools: Communicate 18 Jul 2012 | 03:30 am
I’ve talked about mutual respect, and recognizing emotions, and the importance of caring for yourself as a parent and here I want to talk about communication. When I was in the punitive parentingminds...
Train up a child, in the way he should go 14 Jul 2012 | 02:07 am
I remember a time some months ago, when 2 year old Ms Pooky was getting her leg stuck in the bars on the back of the kitchen chairs over and over. No matter how many times I helped her slide her ankle...
How I lost my fear of Universal Health Care 9 Jul 2012 | 11:16 pm
When I moved to Canada in 2008, I was a die-hard conservative Republican. So when I found out that we were going to be covered by Canada’s Universal Health Care, I was somewhat disgusted. This meant w...
Taking a break... 27 Jun 2012 | 11:00 pm
Call it a blogging fast, call it a computer fast, but I am going to be gone for a little bit. I'm not sure how long I will need. A day, a week, I don't know. But when everything on the computer starts...
