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What I’ve Got

Posted in blogging, friends, fuck all, humanity is not my friend, more happy pills please on 07.05.2010 | 2 Comments »

(no…not two turntables and a microphone…) I’ve been feeling really really shitty lately, like not-a-hell-of-a-lot is going my way. (If you’re reading this, you can probably relate.) I was begining to think that nothing – absolutely nothing – was going my way. I dug deep. DOwn to my toes with the very most of my [...]

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I Have a Dream…

Posted in The Former Mister, blogging, family matters, friends, into the void, more happy pills please, putting the FUN in dysfunctional, solo parenting on 06.07.2010 | 3 Comments »

I have a dream …of gathering all the women I know in one room so that we can solve the world’s problems about mothering and childcare and feminisn and schooling and juggling it all and co – parenting and mental illness and recovering from trauma and talking back to the experts and healing from toxic/negative [...]

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Mothering and Being Mothered

Posted in ShitFuckShit, The Former Mister, The Mook, family matters, friends, more happy pills please, solo parenting on 04.26.2010 | 13 Comments »

If there is one thing that bothers me about my parents, it is that they never noticed the depression. I was nine years old when it started. Spending far too much time in my room. Crying. Alone all of the time. So, when my friend Sandy (social-worker-at-large) posed a question to me last night over [...]

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Bits and Pieces

Posted in The Mook, dating, friends, into the void, more happy pills please, solo parenting on 04.13.2010 | 3 Comments »

And then there are the parenting moments when you are woken up at 4 am as your child crawls into your bed. But instead of falling back asleep, I hear whining. Because said child has misplaced a wee stuffed bunny (one of two I made from a pair of baby socks) in her travels between [...]

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Grace in Small Things – Weeks 12, 13 and 14

Posted in Grace in Small Things, The Mook, friends, more happy pills please, much love, school on 04.07.2010 | 1 Comment »

a five-hour long visit to the ROM with a new friend and The Mook first birthday parties walking barefoot on freshly vacuumed and mopped floors Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman discovering new (to me) music receiving a certificate of completion for that course I took The Mook telling me that I am beautiful watching the [...]

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Grace in Small Things – Week 10

Posted in Grace in Small Things, The Mook, friends on 03.11.2010 | 1 Comment »

For a second there, I almost wrote ‘Grace in BAD things’. Because the bad things? They are a-plenty. A new computer. Free, from friends who had a spare one lying around. I backed up my documents and photos before my hard drive completely died Urban maple tree tapping (I have 3 litres of sap in [...]

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Happy Birthday Leon! (your help needed)

Posted in blogging, friends on 03.02.2010 | 6 Comments »

This week started off with a computer that would display nothing but the blue screen of death. And a boss who forgot to include me in the payroll. And rent due. And $8.04 in my bank account. Oh, and a research project due on Wednesday. So, to distract me from my stress, I have a [...]

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Grace in Small Things – Week 5

Posted in Grace in Small Things, The Mook, friends, much love on 02.03.2010 | 2 Comments »

The Mook and I, along with her ‘pretend brother’ and his mom,  will be spending this weekend at a waterpark resort at Niagara Falls. I held a hedgehog at a pet store last night. She was adorable and snorfly. Doing crossword puzzles in a laundromat Those chocolate crinkle cookies – affordable crack! – at Cherry [...]

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Grace in Small Things – week 4

Posted in Grace in Small Things, Lists, The Mook, bwah-ha-ha, friends, much love on 01.29.2010 | 2 Comments »

The arrival of a baby, born to friends of mine. She is 10 weeks early and weighs under two lbs but she is feisty and thriving. Having the flexibility to be home with The Mook when she’s sick and trading my M/W/F schedule for M/Th/F. Being accepted into a training program that I feel may [...]

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Swoon

Posted in The List, The Mook, dating, divorce, friends, sex, solo parenting on 01.22.2010 | 6 Comments »

His response to my e-mail – More than a few times, I caught myself bringing up my ex and thinking “why the hell am I bringing HER up with someone that I might possibly propose to one day”?  Here’s my theory.  “The one” will simultaneously be (i) a confidante, (ii) a lover, and (iii) a [...]

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