20
Jun
Late last year, we said goodbye to Tanner. He had taken a bad turn and been medevaced to BC Children's Hospital; his doctors said that it would be our last...
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12
Jun
Truth be told, I am not that interested in getting out into nature. I’m not a hiker, or particularly interested in pitching a tent unless at a music festival, and...
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7
Jun
The Whole Family Happiness project is two things: first, and foremost, it's an exercise in exploring what it means to attach our personal happiness to a larger understanding of happiness...
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1
Jun
(Part II in a series on the pursuit of purpose, whole happiness, and - because we should always dream big - a better world. Read Part I here.)
The move from...
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22
May
Some years ago, my family made the pretty momentous decision to leave Canada and move to the US. We would sell our big Georgian house in the exurbs of Toronto...
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15
May
It was mid-morning yesterday when I realized that Georgie was dying.
She’d been under the weather for a few days. She’d stopped eating. Kyle took her to the vet on Friday...
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10
May
When I was about 11 years old, I wanted to go to Neverland. I desperately wanted to go to Neverland. I wanted Peter Pan to turn up at my window...
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27
Apr
(I originally wrote this years ago. YEARS AGO. But I'm revisiting it now, because I've been thinking a lot about how I might update it, as a mother of school-aged...
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23
Dec
Every year, I publish a variation on the same post about Santa, because every year, Santa plays an important part in our experience of Christmas. Emilia is now eleven, but...
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14
Nov
Dear Emilia,
Today, you turn eleven years old.
Ten years, ago, I wrote you a letter for your first birthday. It was a letter that I imagined you might read many years...
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