As the weather improves, Torontonians head for the lake shore. There are lots of different options. Sugar Beach sits in the shadow of the Redpath Sugar Refinery. Though you can’t go in the water here, there is lovely beach sand, … Continue reading Umbrella (A to Z Blog Challenge – “U” – April 2019)
There are a lot of places I love in the world but so far nowhere has outdone Toronto enough for me to want to move there. What do I love about the city? That’s an easy question. Here are 10 things I love about Toronto. Continue reading 10 Toronto Things (A to Z Blog Challenge – “T” – April 2019)
On various social media and blogging platforms I’ve seen posts along the theme of “What’s in my bag/purse?” Today I’ll share one of the things that you will find in the backpack I carry around most of the time when … Continue reading Naloxone (A to Z Blog Challenge – “N” – April 2019)
This morning over on Reddit, I saw an article posted about a 5 year old girl who had been placed in a 3.5 metre x 2 metre (about 7′ x 12′) storage closet at school as punishment for “kicking a table”. Continue reading Discipline (A to Z Blog Challenge – “D” – April 2019)
As many of you know, we lived in a yurt in the woods from 1999 to 2001 when our son was between the ages of 5 months and two years old. When we moved there our eight cats moved with … Continue reading Bear Attack – (A to Z Blog Challenge – “B” – April 2019)
It’s 2018 and I am in a taxi leaving Jaipur. We pass a large building on Ajmer Road in the outskirts of town. Karan, our driver gestures at it and says “That’s the new Pepsi factory.” I and the other … Continue reading Spend Wisely – Others Depend on You
For the second time this week I have found myself writing what was going to be an epic comment on someone else’s blog post and realizing that it would be better and likely more polite to just move the whole … Continue reading Childhood Eating Habits
