Archives – Her Bad Mother

14 Aug

Hope in the Dark

I don't know about you, but I am finding the world to be a wearying and discouraging place these days. More than that: terrible, maddening, heartbreaking. Racism. Sexism. Environmental crisis. Every...

1 Aug

A Leaf on a Time-Tree

by Catherine

Home Page, Whole Family Happiness

What about your apocalypse then? Well, the universe is a leaf on a time-tree, and come autumn it's going to shrivel and fall off into hell. -- China Mieville, Kraken There's...

11 Jul

What To Say When Nature Gets Scary

by Catherine

Home Page, Whole Family Happiness

This past weekend, my mom was evacuated from her home in British Columbia due to wildfires. She's still evacuated; she knows that her home is still standing, but the fires...

4 Jul

How To Camp With Kids

by Catherine

Adventures, Home Page, Whole Family Happiness

It was going to be our last canoe trip before moving to the US; to say that we were looking forward to it would be a gross understatement. We loved...

30 Jun

14 Reasons to Stay Home This Weekend

by Catherine

Home Page, Whole Family Happiness

We’re staying home this long weekend. It’s too hot at our usual getaway (our current happy place), and we’ve just been too busy to make other plans. We may head...

26 Jun

Find Your Happy Place

by Catherine

Home Page, Whole Family Happiness

(Part III in a series on the pursuit of purpose, whole happiness, and – because we should always dream big – a better world. Read Part I here, and Part...

20 Jun

Goodbye Can Wait

by Catherine

Home Page, Tanner

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...

12 Jun

Connecting In The Garden

by Lola Augustine Brown

Whole Family Happiness

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...

1 Jun

The Art of Letting Go

by Catherine

Home Page, Whole Family Happiness

(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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