Road Trips – Her Bad Mother

11 May

California, Here I Come

Today, I'm flying to California. Palm Springs, specifically, and then Disneyland (because, you know, you just don't cross the San Andreas fault line without going to Disneyland. At least, I don't.) California invited me,...

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10 Mar

Angels With Dirty Faces

by Catherine

Road Trips

Shiny, happy, smudgy-faced baby, all jacked up on Disney's Animal Kingdom safari. Kinda hard to be angsty and sad, looking at that face. This is, I suppose, the function and purpose of angels. *More shiny...

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4 Mar

Love Thursday: Luge Baby Edition

by Catherine

Road Trips

Mr. Jasper, being assisted in the luge by his sister Miss Emilia, at the home of Mrs. Fussypants.* *This is how we road trip. On skateboards. Etc. **Actually, we're in a Traverse, courtesy of GM Canada....

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29 Jan

I Love The Smell Of Activism In The Morning

by Catherine

Categories, Causes, Fearless, Feminism, Rants, Road Trips, Tanner

Friday's as good a good as any for promoting a cause, right? How about two? Cause #1: If you're a Canadian woman, and you've had surgery, you might have been been given - while you...

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22 Jul

The Road Hard Travelled

by Catherine

Mush, Road Trips, Uncategorized

I am crying as I write this. Which means, basically, that post-partum hormones still surge through my body even over a year after the fact, and threaten to undo me at every turn. Also,...

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15 Jul

Roadkill

by Catherine

Canada, Family, Fearless, Road Trips

It was a mother duck and her three baby ducks, and I was pretty sure that we were going to kill them. It wasn't so much the impending massacre that made me scream. Nor was...

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13 Jul

Life Is Highway. And A Old Skool Rap Jam.

by Catherine

Road Trips

It's going to take me a while to decompress from the awesome that was our recent road-trip adventure. It's also going to take me a while to unfurl and soothe my heart, which got...

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6 Jul

Don’t Feed The Animals

by Catherine

Road Trips

Hinterland Who's Who: The Flap-Winged Warbling Budgerigar. Not native to Banff National Park, but comfortable in habitats other than its own. Also known for unpredictable flight patterns, piercing cries and a tendency to peck...

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2 Jul

Joy Is A Road Stop

by Catherine

Road Trips, Uncategorized

This trip is hard. It's awesome - there's no question that it's awesome - but it's also hard. And not just hard because it's difficult to wrangle two busy little children on one's own...

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30 Jun

Something Happened To The Music Box

by Catherine

Canada, Road Trips

Here's the thing that we discovered yesterday: when you decide to fly half-way across the country with three small children, just so that you can turn around and drive back in the other direction,...

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