random asides

You spend the major portion of your adult life with a backup plan in your pocket. This isn’t a get-out-of-jail-free card. Life isn’t Monopoly. It’s a survival tactic that’s sewn…

If you ask me what my favourite number is, I’ll tell you that it’s a multiple of 3. Usually, I plump for 12, but there’s a reason why I always…

I am always first on the line to smack heads when someone tries to give me “advice” on how to parent my child. It’s funny, but the people who pass…

She: “Mom I’m making a toy at school. It’s a project. I’m making a robot alien” Me: “That’s so cool, babe. What are you going to call it?” She: “424-424”.…

When you’re 24, pregnant and everyone calls you highly neurotic about, well, everything, it seems like a really good idea to hang curtains. We’d just moved into the flat I…

No, it’s not just an Aerosmith song, although you should probably listen to it now, because it’ll help me get my point across. I read this, this week, and find…

Today’s the start of school holidays for us so, this seemed a fitting way to start them off. We took delivery of Cloe this morning, and she’s spent today doing…

this is the thing you do not know. it lives, it sleeps, it plods through the snow. but sometimes life sends us a spark. through characters 140, there comes an…

I have a compulsion to write this evening but, you know how you get stuck on a sentence and it just won’t fit? I’m there right now. So here I am,…

Dear Daughter, At some point in your life, in the indeterminate and very-far-away future, you’ll be an adult. You’ll be swinging your way through whatever it is that you end…