“Here’s the Father’s Day craft F made today,” she said, smiling and holding a colourful, hand-painted card out to me. “I can tell you since you’re not his father!”I felt my heart sink into my stomach as the daycare teacher’s teenage daughter showed me the masterpiece F had spent his day working on. It was the… Continue reading Happy "Mather’s" Day

I’m inclined to believe that society might have screwed me up.This applies to many things, to be sure, but I’ve found that our youth (a group I’m rapidly outgrowing my membership of) have a very skewed perception of matters related to um, not being a youth. The dreaded G word.Grownup. Yuck, right? I know. Sigh.… Continue reading Grownup

I’ve never felt inferior (or superior) based on my gender thanks to an amazing team of role models including my fantastic parents, extended family, teachers, coaches and friends. While there are obvious times when a male is better suited to the job, such as those related directly to physical strength, I was brought up with the… Continue reading Boys Against Girls

You know when you’re walking out of a store on a windy day, and your receipt that you totally need blows away? Yeah. I hate that. So, knowing full-well that you look like a total jackass, you run across the parking lot all flailing limbs and tripping over shopping bags (what were you thinking wearing… Continue reading Gotcha!

Here comes an early-morning rant. You’ve been warned. (I’m not even caffeinated yet) I’m not sure if it’s my overtired self being a little more irritable lately, or if it’s the fact that my tolerance for nonsense has lowered but I have found it more and more painful to read the tweets and Facebook statuses in… Continue reading Girl Power?