She Speaks To Me

On  my run today, while thinking on the discussions about gender bias and expectations, I heard this by Ani Difranco (from 32 Flavors). And God help you if you are an ugly girl Course too pretty is also your doom Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred For the prettiest girl in the room And God [...]

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Courage

The root of the word courage is cor—the Latin word for heart. In one of it’s earliest forms, the word courage meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart”. ~ from I Thought It Was Just Me: Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy and Power by Brene Brown, Ph.D., L.M.S.W.

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Where Did I Go?

Any closet Oprah magazine readers out there? I had an “Aha!” moment today. I was out for lunch with my parents, and conversation turned to my current situation. I said that in conflicts my overwhelming desire is always to opt out. That it always seems like less of a hassle to give in, forget about [...]

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Trite But True

A few months ago, my parents took us all out for Chinese food. The Littles loved their fortunes, so they sticky taped them near the Messy Counter in the kitchen, where they were promptly forgotten, but I found them this morning during one of my random bursts of cleaning energy, and I decided that I [...]

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For the Everday Heroes

There is never a resting place in the struggle for personal and political integrity. When anxiety is high, and resources appear scarce, some individuals and groups will always operate at the expense of others. But we can long for and work toward that unrealized world where the dignity and integrity of all women, all human [...]

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Training For Life

Miss L has a diving competition this weekend. It’s an annual event put on by the diving club in this city, a national qualifying event, with about 200 divers from all across Canada competing. It’s run by parent volunteers (of course), so I’ll be there for all three days, soaking in the chloriney smells, and [...]

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Courage

I’d like to think that I would have done the same when I was in highschool, but I doubt it. Travis Price and David Shepard, two grade 12 students who live in rural Nova Scotia, organized a school protest to wear pink in sympathy with a grade 9 boy who was being bullied. The boy being targeted was [...]

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Why Homeschool?

Why does homeschooling appeal to me so much? I asked myself this question in my pit of despair last week, when I was racking my brain trying to figure out why I even bother with it when I could just send them all to school, dust my hands together, and go get a job. Here it is: the [...]

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