Parenting

Love Your Children In a Manner That They Can’t Help But Love You Back. Whatever That Is To You.

We have just recently moved in to a rental property that is... less than ideal.  After piling all the trash left at the property by the previous tenant out on the curb for council clean up one evening, I was walking arm in arm up the driveway with my 17 yo daughter. Me: “Thanks for… Continue reading Love Your Children In a Manner That They Can’t Help But Love You Back. Whatever That Is To You.

Parenting

Just because it isn’t real, doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

My daughter is writing a paper at the moment about Freedom and she was discussing with the family how she was going to compare the ‘Kony 2012’ movement with the women’s rights movement. And during this discussion on how ideas start and spread I pulled out one of my favourite Gloria Steinem quotes: And then… Continue reading Just because it isn’t real, doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

Marriage, Random Stories

Elmo, a leg rash and arson

Regurgitated post from 2011 from another site: So I saw on Facebook yesterday that my best friend had been taken to hospital.  Before you judge me for finding out via Social Media that my best friend was dying of an unnamed disease, I’m not sure what, possibly testicular cancer or hemorrhoids, I would like to… Continue reading Elmo, a leg rash and arson