October 2011

Here’s the thing about Halloween with kids: dressing kids up is wildly fun, when you have control over the dress-up process. When you get to decide what they wear – which is to say, when you dress them up in whatever fashion amuses you – the whole exercise is awesome, and well worth the energy required (and you do need energy. Wrestling squirmy babies into chicken outfits is not for the faint of heart or weak of arm.)

Okay, so she was a duck, so, more fowl than poultry. Also, she was in pasties. Which is like fowl with garnish.

It’s most awesome when you can dress them up in ways that are borderline inappropriate, or would be if your neighbors had any familiarity with the works of Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick (ours did not): Keep reading…

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Home Is Where The Heart, And The Internet, Is

October 28, 2011

So we’re all together now, my family and me, in our new house – apartment – in New York City and I have to say, it is pretty much equal parts awesome and overwhelming. Awesome, because I get to cuddle my children every single day, which is a luxury that I have been missing for [...]

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Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?

October 28, 2011

Nancy wants to know how you manage mobile etiquette (yes, there is such a thing.) You can follow Nancy’s other Digital Life discussions in her stream here, and you can see what else she’s up to over at the Intel Canada Facebook page. Personally, I would have thrown his phone out the nearest window.

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Family Sized Blender: The Loss

October 27, 2011

Strap in for Jason’s ongoing story. Once a tech obsessed writer/photographer/speaker, he thought he had it all under control – until his family grew six sizes. Now he’s trying to fuse everyone together into a single family. This is Family Sized Blender. It really was only a cheeseburger. Mom got home last night late after [...]

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A Family Grows In Brooklyn

October 24, 2011

This is the story for this week, the only story, the only story that matters: they’re here. Finally. They’re home. We’re home, together. This is the first day – the first days – of the rest of our lives.

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What A Difference A Voice Makes

October 23, 2011

Nancy considers the potential of voice control/voice activation applications for people with special needs – people like her son. Keep up with Nancy at the Intel Canada Facebook page. Voice control for mobile devices seems to have suddenly hit the mainstream. Siri is your personal concierge on the iPhone 4s. Blackberry is giving away iSpeech. [...]

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Family Sized Blender: The Sale

October 20, 2011

Strap in for Jason’s ongoing story. Once a tech obsessed writer/photographer/speaker, he thought he had it all under control – until his family grew six sizes. Now he’s trying to fuse everyone together into a single family. This is Family Sized Blender. Jason also blogs about making better memories with your point-and-shoot camera. Check out [...]

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Down This Long Distance Line Tonight

October 19, 2011

Of all the types of mother that I imagined I’d be – when, that is I did imagine being a mother, which was not all that often – I never imagined that I’d be an absentee mother. I imagined that I’d work, of course – staying at home was nothing that I ever aspired to, [...]

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What Happens When You Put On Shiny Spandex

October 17, 2011

The New Kids On The Block were never really my jam when I was younger. I was more into Depeche Mode and and The Cure and adorable boy bands just weren’t, you know, emo enough for me. That said, I did know who they were and I did, maybe, know all the words to Step [...]

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Bloggers Of Canada, Unite And Take Over

October 14, 2011

What do you get when you put 300 women bloggers and assorted Canadian media personalities in the Barbara Frum Atrium at CBC studios and give them wine? Awesome. Awesome happens.     The awesome kind of speaks for itself, I think.    

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