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Meta-blogging

In which she shakes it off and sucks it up

11 March 2010 Meta-blogging

Okay, bear with me for one saccharine minute. Please? I promise, it’s no worse than yesterday’s introspective moaning. (I swear, I blame it on Douglas Coupland. I still credit Generation X with getting me motivated out of a bad marriage, and I’ve spend the last three weeks reading The Gum Thief. He gets into my [...]

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The post I wasn’t going to write

10 March 2010 Meta-blogging

Last week when I put up the quick post with the TtV tulip shot, I mentioned that I felt I’d been neglecting the blog lately because I’ve been so crazy busy and “feeling a little unsettled.” Bless her observant little heart, Angela picked up on it and asked me “Why unsettled?” Sigh. It’s been about [...]

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The Creepy Thesis Hangover

22 February 2010 Meta-blogging

Leave it to Marla to come up with the perfect final word. By the time I’d gone to bed last night, I was feeling that vaguely hangover-y, regretful way she describes in her comment. You know, that guilty and indulgent way you feel when you’ve eaten too many chips or wasted too much time on [...]

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In which the Internet finally freaks her out once and for all

21 February 2010 It IS all about me

For those of you not on Twitter at 10:00 pm on a Saturday night (what, you have a life?) you might have missed the latest gossip. Turns out some woman at SFU wrote a masters thesis about called “Works in Progress: An Analysis of Canadian Mommyblogs.” In it, she examines in minute detail the writings [...]

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A bloggy question of ethics

27 January 2010 Meta-blogging

The other day, I received an e-mail pitch about a recent kids’ movie that I had thought about taking the boys to over Christmas. Now it’s coming out on DVD, and a PR firm working for the studio contacted me with what was very obviously a mass mailing. Usually, I just delete these, but I’d [...]

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More reruns: The Sweater Story

8 April 2009 It IS all about me

I’m blogging over at Family Jewels again today, and it’s a topic both dear to my heart and important for you to read, so get on over there and read it, okay? But if you still can’t get enough of me today (frankly, I’m a little sick of me these days!) here’s a golden oldie [...]

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Rerun week continues with A Love Letter to My Daughter, Who Will Never Be

7 April 2009 It IS all about me

(I’m guest-blogging this week over at Canadian Family magazine’s blog, Family Jewels, so it’s nothing but re-runs back here. Since I’m writing today about why sons are better than daughters, I thought it would be a good day to share this one from my archives, originally posted in September 2007.) To my darling daughter, who [...]

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Zed-versus-Zee, the first in a series of reruns

6 April 2009 Life, the Universe and Everything

Here’s another secret I’ve been keeping from you. (Two secrets in one month. Can you believe it?) I’ve been asked to guest-blog this week over at Canadian Family magazine’s Family Jewels blog. How cool is that? My first post should be up there later today – come on over and say hello! (Edited to add: [...]

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In which she pines for the glory days of Blogging 1.0

24 March 2009 Meta-blogging

My friend Barbara, also a social media junkie and mom-blogger, sent me a link yesterday to an article about a contest sponsored by Scholastic to find the “best Mommy Blogs on the Web.” No wait, don’t leave just yet, I promise I’m not out to whore any votes for this one! The voting is over [...]

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Ch-ch-ch-changes

12 March 2009 Editorial asides

So you know I hate change. Really, I do. It took me four years to finally change my gravatar photo, for goodness sake, and it pained me to do so. Even when I know I’m going to like the new thing better, I’m still reluctant to let go of the old thing. (I was going [...]

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