Yesterday morning, I was in a rush. I was giving a presentation at the Motherlode conference that afternoon, I had business to attend to at the university in the morning, I had a paper...

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Edit: WonderBaby update, belowYou know how it goes.The weekend starts out lovely - say, you and your husband realize that the planets are in such proper alignment that it is finally possible to celebrate...

My mother was and still is an inveterate teller of tall tales, especially in conversation with children. Any of you who read my interview with Mommybloggers.com will know that the very name for this...

You are, all of you, every single one of you who wrote, commented or reached out in any way in response to my last two posts, the most generous human beings. Your honesty about...

I cannot thank you all enough for your tremendously supportive response to my last post (and to my recent, price related posts over at urbanmoms.ca): your comments, physician your e-mails, viagra sale...

So many things to write about, so little energy and time, and the distraction of this terrible, nagging, obsessive thought: that I am a bad mother.A really bad mother, not a bad-as-in-cool mother: a...

Nothing cuts through the gloom quite like a virtual party thrown in your honour - Meghan, Jenn and Jenny of Mommybloggers.com are celebrating all things Bad Mother this week and damn if it doesn't...

I haven’t been able to blog in days.It’s not because there’s been too much else to do on a holiday weekend (Canadian Thanksgiving.) There’s always too much else to do: blogging is usually my...

Some time before WonderBaby was born, my husband and I had a conversation about what it was going to be like to have a daughter. I asked him whether he thought he might find...