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Mrs. Single Mom
When my sister and her friends get together, just like my mom and her friends did while I grew up, it must be something about partnered, at-home moms. But they often make some joking comments about how...
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Daddy’s Little Girl
It’s commonly said that once you become a mom, you find a new found appreciation for your own mother. While this completely true, I never, in a million years, thought that motherhood would allow me...
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It’s My Party!
After various changes by the Birthday Boy, the theme is set. First, it was a Haunted Mansion theme (my son has a strange fascination with ghosts). Then, it was a superhero party. Now, it is a hockey...
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The Reluctant Hockey Mom
A surgical mask firmly fixed onto my face, yellow rubber gloves run up my arms, and I am going in. It’s the night before my son’s first hockey ‘practice’ and for some unknown reason; his gloves were...
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A Glimmer of French
A person who has a French last name and doesn’t speak a lick of French is not at all uncommon in English Canada-or, if you are like many on my father’s side, don’t even know the appropriate...
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"Awareness is Always in Style"
While National Women and Girl’s HIV Awareness Day (March 10, 2011) is an American institution, I think it is just as pertinent to Canadians. In researching some facts about AIDS, I was...
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Tricking the Scale
I, like half of the female population of North America, have a slight scale obsession. The numbers on that flat, little bully can have a massive effect on my mood. Unfortunately, I have always weighed...
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The Cookies
Sometimes I have the tendency to get stuck on an idea. No matter how seemingly absurd and altogether useless this idea might seem to others. Once I’ve set my mind on something, there is no turning...
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Pampered Chef
I remember, my mom hosting and going to many shopping parties when I was young. It seemed to be the trend with her and her friends. They had clothes, jewellery, kitchen gadgets, and just about...
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Wishes Do Come True
Every woman should have the right and opportunity to follow her heart into her castle on the clouds. Unfortunately, too many women feel that their big dreams are lost to the night. There is nothing...
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The New Rosies
A slight woman with curly white hair and Elizabeth Taylor red lips with a matching red coat stood directly in front of me at the advanced polling line-up. In the process of conversation, she...
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If the Shoe Fits…
Now, Slice Network is generally more of a guilty pleasure that one would curl up to with a tub of Half-Baked for a little bit of mindless television. It’s not exactly the place you expect to find a...
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Something's Gotta Give
I looked at his sweet, perfect little face and my heart tied into knots. I took a deep breath into my twirly tummy. Ok, I just might have to vomit here. I was leaving my...
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Two for One
I have learned as a mother, student and now as a working girl that it is impossible to be in two places at once, and I have to stop trying to clone myself. For the first couple days of my full-time...
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Do You Want to Know a Secret?
Every time somebody learns that I am a mom, the routine goes in very much the same manner. Since this literally happens, every single time…I would be shocked if every young mom hasn’t gone through this...
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Shaking it Off!
Monday Morning, your babysitter shows up without a voice…literally. She’s the sweetest woman in the world who would have to be hospitalized to keep away. Despite your false assurances that you’ll be...
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Help Terry Fox Outrun Cancer
The 31st Annual Terry Fox Run is in danger of not taking place this year in over a dozen communities, if a volunteer Run Organizer is not found. “It would be such a shame for the people of these...
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Rainy Day Ninja(go) Lessons
I was a girlie-girl. No question about it. I never got the whole video game thing. I was the girl who couldn’t get the car out of the wall. Yep, I was always slightly jealous of the more tomboy girls,...
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Terry Fox Great Canadian Hair “Do” is itching to create a buzz for cancer...
The Terry Fox Foundation is looking to make cancer research the hottest trend in hairstyling with the Terry Fox Great Canadian Hair “Do.” Energetic and creative people are sought as organizers,...
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Coquitlam Terry Fox Run is Back on Track!
Pull out your pledge sheets because the Terry Fox Run is coming to Coquitlam for its second year. It looked like Coquitlam residents would have to head to Port Coquitlam or Port Moody to join the...
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