Personal/Family News Archives

December 31, 2024 The Year Everything Changed, Again
December 25, 2024 The Nearly-Empty Tim Hortons at Christmas
September 9, 2024 Back to the Blog
September 5, 2024 My Father's House
September 1, 2024 Wendell Noteboom (1944-2024)
April 26, 2024 In the End, There is Tea
March 21, 2024 Roller Coaster
October 24, 2023 Silver Anniversary
October 5, 2023 Is There Anybody Out There?
July 8, 2023 My Left Retina
April 28, 2023 Signs You Are Getting Old, #2,743
April 25, 2023 I don't like Mondays
April 6, 2023 Stand by Me and Classic Culture
February 16, 2023 The Last Gate
February 13, 2023 Twenty-One
January 25, 2023 Snow Falling
January 7, 2023 Waiting for the Train
September 24, 2022 Farewell Rosemarie (1946-2022)
August 3, 2022 Remembering Mike Filey
July 18, 2022 The Communicators (2022 Walk & Run for rare)
May 27, 2022 Senior Discount
May 1, 2022 Return to Innocence
February 13, 2022 Twenty Years Later
March 12, 2021 Last (or, rather, latest) Post
January 18, 2021 I Can See Clearly Now...
January 7, 2021 The Year of Hindsight
November 9, 2020 The Last Four Years
October 27, 2020 PCCs on Kingston Road
August 31, 2020 Phone Conversation During the Pandemic
July 8, 2020 In Memory
April 4, 2020 I Saw the Stars in April
April 1, 2020 Back When We Could Roam
March 16, 2020 Quarantine Journal, Day 4
March 13, 2020 Remarkable Events
February 13, 2020 If my blog were alive, it could vote, now
December 15, 2019 This is a Life's Work
August 31, 2018 What We Did on Our Summer Vacation
August 4, 2018 Heading West, Again
June 29, 2018 Dear Starbucks
(On Drive-Thru Small Talk)
May 12, 2018 Mother's Day
April 20, 2018 The Saga of the Industrial Sander
April 19, 2018 The Month of Renovations
April 16, 2018 The North Wind Doth Blow, and We Shall Have Snow...
April 6, 2018 Farewell Lance, Hello Ida
February 17, 2018 On the Need for an Integrated Transit Plan
Part 1: Expand the Inter-City Bus Network
February 13, 2018 Dear Diary
January 12, 2018 One Year Later
January 2, 2018 The Year of Worry and Wonder
December 26, 2017 Happy Holidays
December 17, 2017 Milestone Reached
November 28, 2017 The New Look
November 23, 2017 The Places Where We Remember
November 9, 2017 Tim Hortons and the Good Place
October 31, 2017 Halloween 2017
October 25, 2017 Luna Incognito
October 22, 2017 Ottawa at Night
October 19, 2017 Off to Ottawa
October 7, 2017 Unboxing my Aurora Award
September 27, 2017 Wherein I Almost Fall for a Scam...
September 2, 2017 The Fourth Computer
August 21, 2017 We're going to Nashville! Nashville! Nashville, Tennessee! We're going to Nashville!
August 19, 2017 South of Dayton
July 26, 2017 On Cataracts
July 4, 2017 On Meeting Gordon Korman
July 1, 2017 Back to the Blog
May 11, 2017 Mid May
April 27, 2017 Ruth Gillespie (1949-2017)
April 19, 2017 Halfway to Ninety
March 27, 2017 Michael Comes Home
March 26, 2017 So... What Happened Here?
February 13, 2017 Happy Belated Anniversary
January 27, 2017 Where the Wasps Were
January 25, 2017 It's important to stand up for the truth
January 15, 2017 Eulogy
January 11, 2017 Obituary
January 7, 2017 Mom
December 31, 2016 Annus Horribilis?
December 4, 2016 Winter is Coming
November 4, 2016 Halloween Costumes
November 2, 2016 Cookies and Milk
October 24, 2016 The Porcelain Anniversary
October 5, 2016 The Great Canadian Mark-Up
October 2, 2016 Home Renovation Saga
September 17, 2016 Dragonfly Into Butterfly
September 13, 2016 Renovation Creep
September 6, 2016 End of Summer and First Day of School
September 3, 2016 The Hammer in Slow Motion
August 26, 2016 The Curious Case of the Dropping Coins
August 20, 2016 Michigan Beach
August 16, 2016 Home Improvement
July 7, 2016 Reflections on Humber Bay
July 5, 2016 Parliament at Sunset
June 30, 2016 The Blue Fireman
June 24, 2016 The Perils of Living With a Young Dog
June 8, 2016 Concussion
May 15, 2016 Luna... By Chance, You Don't Know What Happened to the Kids' Blue Hair Chalk, Do You?
May 11, 2016 Welcome, Swan Riders!
May 6, 2016 Eleanor Grace at Eight
April 28, 2016 Daddy-Daughter Day
April 25, 2016 Happiness is a Cold Nose
April 22, 2016 Gardening for Earth Day
April 14, 2016 Smile and Frown Cookies
April 10, 2016 Nora's Bucket List
March 26, 2016 Happy Easter!
March 24, 2016 This Blog is Going to the Dog
March 20, 2016 Ducks on the Roof
March 17, 2016 March Break
March 14, 2016 Meet Luna
February 25, 2016 Desk Photographs
February 22, 2016 Author Photographs
February 16, 2016 Shovelling Snow
February 13, 2016 Speaking For Myself For Fourteen Years
February 10, 2016 Nora's Face in Bubbles
January 17, 2016 Kitchener Station at Sunrise
January 3, 2016 Hello 2016
December 31, 2015 The Year of the Scorpion
December 23, 2015 Wet Christmas
December 7, 2015 The Colour of the Light
November 27, 2015 Twenty Years Ago
November 7, 2015 Not Sure When I Took This
November 2, 2015 Vivian, Zero to Ten
October 29, 2015 What You Can Do With an Egg
October 23, 2015 And That's Erin, Fighting for the Rebel Alliance in Her Own Special Way
October 5, 2015 The Lost Hobby
October 4, 2015 Ancient Tinkertoys
September 25, 2015 This Street is Made for Walking
September 22, 2015 One of these Days, Nora is Going to Reenact that Scene from E.T.
September 21, 2015 Farewell to the Office
September 14, 2015 Autumn Falls
September 7, 2015 Summer's Labours
September 1, 2015 Sisters in a Nutshell
August 30, 2015 And a Star to Steer Her By
August 23, 2015 Drayton Festivities
August 5, 2015 Smellorama
July 11, 2015 Pacific Sunset
July 8, 2015 Ten Years Later
July 6, 2015 Sacramento Dreaming
July 2, 2015 Fresno Dreaming
June 29, 2015 San Francisco Dreaming
June 27, 2015 California Dreaming
June 19, 2015 Contemplating the End of June
June 15, 2015 Sisterly Love
June 8, 2015 The Masque of the Chocolate Death
June 5, 2015 The Mystery of the Missing Water
May 28, 2015 Just Remember that Somebody Had to Consider the Possibilities
May 19, 2015 The First Picture I Ever Took
May 9, 2015 Weekend in (Great Wolf) Paradise
April 10, 2015 Throne of Scorpions
Erin Bow's The Scorpion Rules Cover Revealed
April 2, 2015 Wherein I Show You My Etching...
March 17, 2015 The Great Thaw
March 11, 2015 The Art of Scorpions
March 4, 2015 The Empty Home
February 28, 2015 Many Moving Boxes
February 22, 2015 Well, that's Optimistic
February 13, 2015 Thirteen Years Ago Today
February 4, 2015 Petty Thieves
January 27, 2015 So, We Ordered Boxes...
January 2, 2015 An Example of Strange Luck
January 1, 2015 The Year of Strange Luck
December 25, 2014 Merry Christmas, 2014
December 19, 2014 The Lego Gender Swap
December 4, 2014 Joseph Howard O'Connor (1917-2014)
November 17, 2014 Blessings in Disguise
November 4, 2014 Vivian Katherine's Ninth Birthday
November 1, 2014 On a Life Turned Somewhat Upside Down
October 5, 2014 Doctor Who: The Season So Far
September 1, 2014 Just What Cats Need...
August 27, 2014 To the Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughters...
August 19, 2014 The Last Two Weeks of Summer
August 11, 2014 What I've Been Writing Lately
August 4, 2014 What We Did on our Summer Vacation (So far)
July 30, 2014 My Fourth (Published) Novel
(Icarus Down Purchased by Scholastic Canada)
July 24, 2014 On Tim Horton's and its Faulty Embrace of New Technology
July 10, 2014 Sisters' Day 2014
July 8, 2014 Hey, Whatever Works, Right?
July 6, 2014 From Pillow Forts to Bridges
June 29, 2014 Assorted Thoughts on a Sunday Morning.
June 22, 2014 Mourning the Northlander
June 17, 2014 The Subduction Zone in my Floor
June 8, 2014 The Lollipop Grenade
June 4, 2014 Descendant of the Dinosaurs
May 16, 2014 Cue Angry E-mails In 3... 2... 1... Ah, here we go...
May 14, 2014 The It Girl
May 12, 2014 Random Thought for the Day
May 10, 2014 Apple OsX Stops a Windows Trojan Over the Phone
May 6, 2014 Our Trip to Ottawa
May 3, 2014 Updates for May
April 29, 2014 Eleanor Grace's Sixth Birthday
April 21, 2014 Easter Monday
April 19, 2014 My Birthday, the Universe and Everything
March 26, 2014 Rocket Girl
March 9, 2014 Vivian, the Acrobatic Reader
March 4, 2014 Vivian, Using My iPhone's Note App, Wrote This:
February 27, 2014 Nora Watches the NFB's The Cat Came Back for the First Time...
February 13, 2014 2858th Post
February 9, 2014 The Ninth of Farch
January 31, 2014 Why, Thank You!
January 20, 2014 On Movies and Writing
January 15, 2014 The Genetic Burden
January 10, 2014 The Fog of Building
January 6, 2014 Extreme Conditions
January 1, 2014 A Year of Change and Status Quo
December 17, 2013 Winter. I hate it.
December 14, 2013 Burlington Waves
December 1, 2013 Vivian's New Ornithopter
November 21, 2013 Maple Blossoms, by Vivian
November 17, 2013 Ready for the Dentist's Chair
November 8, 2013 Children on Podiums
November 6, 2013 No Ennui on the TTC
November 2, 2013 Vivian Katherine's Eighth Birthday
November 1, 2013 Yeah. School. Whatever
October 30, 2013 Perimeter Halloween
October 20, 2013 Fall Deepens
October 13, 2013 Blue Sun, by Vivian Bow
September 27, 2013 In the Shadow of Big Daddy
September 23, 2013 What I've Been Writing Lately - Fall Equinox Edition
September 11, 2013 The Beach at the End of the Line
August 16, 2013 What I've Been Writing Lately
August 9, 2013 State Fair
July 28, 2013 Balloons Return to Indianola
July 27, 2013 Your Worst Day, Ever...
July 23, 2013 Dear Dave
July 20, 2013 Clever Vandalism
July 16, 2013 Piercing
July 14, 2013 Plastic Parking Tickets
July 8, 2013 Sisters' Day
July 7, 2013 Vivian Reads
July 4, 2013 An Educational Toy
July 1, 2013 O, Canada
June 27, 2013 The Last Day of JK
June 21, 2013 Glass Railing
June 19, 2013 This Blog is Not Abandoned
June 11, 2013 Proud to be Yellow
June 4, 2013 Keeping Active
May 31, 2013 The Beaches of Burwell
May 26, 2013 Hello, Jasper.
May 24, 2013 Fire Dancers in New Dundee, Sea Glass in Neville Park
May 14, 2013 What the Heck are Burpees?
May 9, 2013 You've Got to Play by the Rules
May 7, 2013 Bumper Stickers that Do Not Comfort the Person Behind You
April 17, 2013 Gus
April 15, 2013 The Mysterious Tool For Cutting Metal
April 11, 2013 A Poem
April 7, 2013 In the Sun
March 26, 2013 Edible Geometry
March 24, 2013 This is How we Roll on our Bookshelving
March 23, 2013 Late Winter Can be Beautiful
March 22, 2013 The Girl With the Shadow Tattoo
March 19, 2013 Legoland Toronto
March 17, 2013 Hopefully, We Haven't Bitten Off More than We Can Chew...
March 14, 2013 A Cover Reveal of Sorrow's Knot, by Erin Bow
March 11, 2013 It's My Little Steampunk Pony!
March 2, 2013 Despite Radio Silence, I'm Still Writing.
February 28, 2013 Our Subsequent Deaths Were Agonizing, and Not at all Quick
February 27, 2013 An Open Letter of Complaint to Onterra Farms Inc.,
February 24, 2013 Going Underground
February 13, 2013 Belated Blog Anniversary
February 3, 2013 Hulk vs. She Hulk
February 2, 2013 A Nice Place to Visit...
January 28, 2013 Apple Workarounds
January 21, 2013 We'll See How Brave You Are...
The Night Girl Starts Over
January 18, 2013 Thoughts from the Married Brain
January 16, 2013 The Door Opens Both Ways
January 13, 2013 The Guy With the Train in His Basement
January 11, 2013 In the Emergency Waiting Room at Grand River Hospital
January 10, 2013 Why I Support the Teachers, Even Though Tomorrow Promises to be a Big Fat Pain in the Ass
January 1, 2013 The Year of the Consulting Writer
December 30, 2012 Losing Connections
December 25, 2012 Merry Christmas 2012
December 8, 2012 The Forgotten Tax Number
December 7, 2012 O, Christmas Tree
December 4, 2012 Dispatches From the House of Plague
November 30, 2012 Lego Girl Goes on a Lego Bender With Her Lego Friends...
November 24, 2012 Lego Relationships
November 22, 2012 My Next Big Thing? I Hope So.
November 11, 2012 Vivian's Seventh Birthday Party
November 3, 2012 Vivian's Seventh Birthday
October 25, 2012 The Things that Pop In My Head
October 17, 2012 Whither Self-Publishing (and Fan Fiction)
October 13, 2012 The Death of Santa Claus
October 6, 2012 Now Imagine this Picture Without the Message in the Bottle...
October 2, 2012 Erin Runs for the Cure
September 18, 2012 Drawing Breath
September 8, 2012 The Worst Sounds You Can Hear
September 3, 2012 Basia Bulat: It Can't Be You
August 29, 2012 The Dyson Really Does Suck (And in a Good Way)
August 20, 2012 How to Write Four Books in a Month
August 11, 2012 Pacific Sandcastles
August 9, 2012 Armpit Candy
August 5, 2012 The Caves of Wood
August 3, 2012 3-2-1 Boing!
August 2, 2012 Big Sky
July 28, 2012 Monkeybars at Mattawan
July 27, 2012 Hats!
July 22, 2012 The Man I Was - IV
July 21, 2012 Waiting for the Streetcar at Meadowvale
July 17, 2012 Under the Rainbow Bridge
July 12, 2012 News
July 9, 2012 Sisters Day
July 6, 2012 In Lieu of Content: Cute Kid and Flowers
July 3, 2012 Vivian Stops Believing in the Tooth Fairy
June 26, 2012 A Guest of the Daleks
June 24, 2012 Nora Graduates From Preschool
June 19, 2012 Little Gardener
June 18, 2012 Father's Day
June 17, 2012 In Lieu of Content...
June 12, 2012 The Waiting Game
June 5, 2012 Last Chance to See
June 3, 2012 Jasper Climax
May 31, 2012 Big Sky
May 31, 2012 Off the Grid
May 30, 2012 Heading West (by Rail)
May 26, 2012 The Man I Was - III
May 21, 2012 Ghost Stories
May 17, 2012 Metallic Love
May 13, 2012 Well Dressed Up
May 10, 2012 The Maid on the Shore
May 5, 2012 Supermoon!
May 3, 2012 Well, what did you WANT me to do?
April 30, 2012 Quick Hits - April 30
April 29, 2012 Eleanor Grace's Fourth Birthday
April 23, 2012 So Big, and Yet So Small
April 19, 2012 The Man I Was II
April 14, 2012 Slow Patch
April 8, 2012 An Illustration of Inflation
April 5, 2012 Busy Week
April 2, 2012 The Last Image This Camera Ever Took...
March 31, 2012 Look! Look!
March 26, 2012 Attentive
March 24, 2012 My, Grandpa! What Big Patties You Have!
March 17, 2012 Good Knight
March 15, 2012 The Man I Was
March 14, 2012 Conjunction
March 11, 2012 Celebrating the Arrival of Early Spring
March 8, 2012 Sisters
March 5, 2012 Red Belt
March 3, 2012 The Lion of March Was Delayed Three Days
February 28, 2012 Playing Princess
February 26, 2012 Roasting Marshmallows
February 23, 2012 And Now For a Little Cross-Promotion
February 20, 2012 Having breakfast at the corner of King and Dufferin.
February 19, 2012 Bless Me Burger Priest, For I Have Sinned
February 18, 2012 Dispatches From Other Blogs
February 14, 2012 Valentine's Day at the Bow Residence
February 13, 2012 First Post - Ten Years Later
February 11, 2012 Traffic Education
February 7, 2012 A Lazy Day in the Headline Writing Department
February 4, 2012 A Not-So-Good Day
February 3, 2012 Attack of the Zombie Lego Hordes!
February 2, 2012 A Groundhog Day Resolution
February 1, 2012 Can there Be Anything Better in this House?
January 28, 2012 Lousy Farch Weather
January 20, 2012 The Ballet Dancer and the Karate Kid
January 15, 2012 The Absurd Cypher (Quick Sherlock Fan Fiction)
January 6, 2012 A Winter Getaway to Sandusky, Ohio
January 4, 2012 Harry Potter Hogwarts LEGO Game Reviewed
December 31, 2011 The Year of Anticipation
December 27, 2011 The Shepherd
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe Reviewed
December 26, 2011 Taking a Family Photograph
December 20, 2011 The Insensitivity of Numbers
December 2, 2011 Coffee Communities
November 27, 2011 Irons in the Fire
November 18, 2011 The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe
November 15, 2011 Patrick Patron Turnbull
November 12, 2011 Tick Tock Goes The Clock...
November 6, 2011 The First School Fad
November 4, 2011 Brevity's Soulful Wit
November 2, 2011 My Daughters are Rock Stars
October 26, 2011 Thirteenth Anniversary
October 22, 2011 An Inspiration For Icarus Down
October 16, 2011 In Preschool, Nora Takes Shop.
October 10, 2011 Burlington Waterfront
October 5, 2011 Plain Kate Wins the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
October 3, 2011 Queens For a Day
September 16, 2011 Dear 1970s: What The Hell Were You Thinking?
September 10, 2011 Good Morning Vancouver
September 7, 2011 Back to School and Back to Work
September 2, 2011 The Sound of Children's Laughter
August 13, 2011 Horses
August 7, 2011 The Balloons of Indianola
July 30, 2011 Off the Beaten Track...
July 24, 2011 The Dog Days
July 20, 2011 Trying Times
July 9, 2011 Sisters' Day
June 30, 2011 On Top of Mount Trashmore
June 29, 2011 A New Identity
June 26, 2011 Erin's Good Week (In Spite of Strep Throat)
June 22, 2011 Humanity's Dangerous Ability to Make Connections Between Things
May 26, 2011 The Crib Vanishes
May 17, 2011 Pain, Inspiration, Befuddlement, Joy
May 13, 2011 Sliders!
May 2, 2011 Let's Go Fly a Kite (and Vote)
April 27, 2011 Eleanor Grace's Third Birthday
April 21, 2011 Somehow, I See an Allegory to the NDP...
April 19, 2011 James Bow: Now as Old as Jack Benny
March 8, 2011 A New Reader
March 3, 2011 It's a Tough Job, But...
February 28, 2011 Cultural Osmosis
February 13, 2011 Ninth Blog Anniversary
February 7, 2011 Rainbow Cake
January 26, 2011 The Negotiator
January 18, 2011 Plain Kate Reviewed in the New York Times
January 1, 2011 The Year of Plain Kate
December 30, 2010 Winter in Lincoln
December 19, 2010 Sledding in Des Moines
December 17, 2010 Back in Benton Harbor
December 11, 2010 Waiting for Christmas
December 7, 2010 Christmas Lights in Waterloo
December 1, 2010 Sick...
November 25, 2010 The Weirdest Blast From the Past
November 22, 2010 Yes, They Are That Good
November 18, 2010 Thank You Centennial
November 15, 2010 Lucille Kribell O'Connor (1920-2010)
November 12, 2010 Parental Thoughts
November 8, 2010 Okay, Seriously, What's Up With This?!
November 2, 2010 On Five Years of Parenting
October 30, 2010 Carving Pumpkins
October 25, 2010 Grin and Bear It
October 23, 2010 Erin Launches Plain Kate at Waterloo's Words Worth Books This Afternoon
September 16, 2010 What Are You Doing?
Just Watching Some Guy Pull a Firetruck
September 5, 2010 The Storms of September
September 2, 2010 Happy Birthday Plain Kate
August 28, 2010 Updates on My Life
August 26, 2010 A New Look
August 18, 2010 A Call to Food and Drink
August 15, 2010 The Road to Fitness
August 12, 2010 Convergence
August 6, 2010 Behind the Sofa
August 1, 2010 1 a.m. in Chelsea, Michigan
July 23, 2010 On the Latest Dispatch by Fred "No Fun" Phelps
July 19, 2010 I am Supporting Impoverished School Libraries in California
July 16, 2010 Random Ideas of Varying Quality.
July 8, 2010 Remembering Wendy, Five Years Later
June 27, 2010 The Revolution May Be Twittered
June 15, 2010 On Rule 34
May 27, 2010 Stardust Memories
May 25, 2010 If We Can Make It Here...
May 18, 2010 Out of the Mouths of Four Year Olds
April 17, 2010 Cultural Influences
April 10, 2010 A Frightening Responsibility
April 4, 2010 Easter Rainbow
March 19, 2010 March Break
March 8, 2010 Family Portraits
February 21, 2010 A Few Self-Indulgent Moans
February 13, 2010 Happy Eighth Birthday, Blog
February 12, 2010 Erin's Plain Kate Debuts this September.
January 1, 2010 The Year of the Red Jellybean
December 25, 2009 I'm Dreaming...
December 22, 2009 Christmas Lights in Lincoln
November 13, 2009 Niagara Falls, New York
November 10, 2009 Counting down to Christmas... and Doctor Who
November 6, 2009 Vivian Katherine's Fourth Birthday
November 3, 2009 Fighting Sleep Apnea II
October 31, 2009 Eleanor's Second Halloween
October 27, 2009 Fighting Sleep Apnea
October 5, 2009 Letting Go
September 17, 2009 Vivian in Kindergarten. Nora Bides Her Time
September 6, 2009 Renovation Creep
August 24, 2009 Vivi and Me and the CNE
August 21, 2009 Tornado Power!
August 18, 2009 How to Write a Book in Ten Days
August 5, 2009 In a Handful of Sand
July 27, 2009 Writing Update From Lincoln
July 22, 2009 Lollipop! Lollipop!
July 21, 2009 Fashion Victim
July 14, 2009 The Age of Sneak
July 10, 2009 Kid Gluttony
July 8, 2009 Remembering Wendy
July 6, 2009 My Daughter Speaks in Jabberwock
June 29, 2009 Undervaluing the Other Parents
June 27, 2009 Nora's First Haircut
May 26, 2009 The Next Phase...
May 16, 2009 Brief Comments on Where My Life is Today
May 6, 2009 Thank you Rockway!
April 27, 2009 Eleanor Grace's First Birthday
April 26, 2009 Bolt from the Blue
April 19, 2009 Halfway to Las Vegas
April 6, 2009 Hoist!
April 3, 2009 Rumours of my Death and All That
March 29, 2009 The Replacements
March 26, 2009 Waiting for the Replacements
March 23, 2009 A Bit of an Arduous Trip
March 6, 2009 Happy 175th Birthday, Toronto
February 19, 2009 Mustang Pride
February 13, 2009 Seven Years of Blogging. No Itch.
January 28, 2009 Family Literacy Day
January 20, 2009 The Year of the Red Jelly Bean
January 10, 2009 Cold City. Warm Heart.
January 9, 2009 Travelling to Ottawa
January 7, 2009 The Long Road Back to Fitness
January 6, 2009 Slowly Starting 2009
December 31, 2008 The Year of the Possum
December 19, 2008 Thank God for Snow Tires
December 18, 2008 The Illusion of Permanence in Babies
December 9, 2008 Odds Bods - October 9
December 2, 2008 Updates, Corrections and Comments
November 24, 2008 News from the House of Plague
November 11, 2008 WAHOO!!!
November 9, 2008 Multiculturalism is More than the Sum of its Parts
November 4, 2008 Vivian's third birthday and Halloween
November 1, 2008 What I'm working on...
October 30, 2008 Why Does Improving a Story So Often Involve Grievious Bodily Harm to the Characters?
October 25, 2008 The Real Tenth Anniversary
October 14, 2008 Monarch Canopy
August 23, 2008 Eleanor's Chinese Name
August 3, 2008 Eleanor Grace Isabella's Baptism
July 24, 2008 Father of Daughters
June 30, 2008 Vivian's First Haircut
June 6, 2008 Oh, How I Love to go up in a Swing!
June 3, 2008 A Call to Food and Drink
(Waterloo-Wellington Blogstravaganza on June 14)
June 2, 2008 The Cake is a Lie!
May 28, 2008 The Geek Starts Here
May 3, 2008 News From the Face of Boe... er... Bow
April 30, 2008 On The Things You Forget (and Bad Metaphors)
April 27, 2008 Eleanor Grace's Zeroth Birthday
April 10, 2008 Family Health Update
April 9, 2008 Another Long Night Ahead
April 7, 2008 Hard Day, Better Evening
April 4, 2008 The Secret Prudes
April 1, 2008 Fool For Love
March 31, 2008 Reasoning With a Two-Year-Old
March 23, 2008 Waiting for Nora
March 9, 2008 Making Sandwiches
March 8, 2008 Driving Through a Winter Wonderland
February 13, 2008 Six Years Conversing Among Friends
January 19, 2008 Beating Winter
January 12, 2008 The Art of Fan Fiction
January 3, 2008 Long Night Ahead?
January 1, 2008 The Year of the Mongoose
December 30, 2007 Carousel
December 27, 2007 Blogging from Lincoln, Nebraska
December 25, 2007 Merry Christmas 2007
December 24, 2007 Calm For Christmas
December 18, 2007 First Baby Pictures, Part 2
December 14, 2007 Stanley Kukwa (1939-2007)
December 3, 2007 What's Vivian Thinking?
December 2, 2007 Vivian's Third Christmas Tree
November 29, 2007 The War on the Holidays
November 26, 2007 Daddy Needs a New Pair of Shoes
November 24, 2007 What's on Your iPod?
November 13, 2007 The Toys Strike Back!
November 5, 2007 Vivian Katherine's Second Birthday
November 2, 2007 Vivian's Second Halloween
October 24, 2007 Ninth Anniversary
September 22, 2007 These Are a Few of My Favourite Things
September 15, 2007 Dennis Heide (1947-2007)
September 6, 2007 I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
September 3, 2007 Family Photographs
August 13, 2007 Mackerel Skies
August 3, 2007 Working Madly
July 30, 2007 The Long and Winding Road to Owen Sound
July 8, 2007 The Gus Odyssey
July 2, 2007 On the Town of Boone, Iowa
June 30, 2007 And Thank You Toronto!
June 25, 2007 Taking Bets on the Fire Drill
June 19, 2007 Rise of the Machines, Part II
June 15, 2007 Perils of Child Rearing that Other Parents See Fit Not to Warn You About
June 7, 2007 U.N.I.T. versus Torchwood
May 28, 2007 Quick Hits - May 28
May 24, 2007 Waterloo-Wellington Blogstravaganza Invitation
May 20, 2007 Does Anybody Remember Blinky?
May 14, 2007 Gearing Up, Gearing Up!
May 13, 2007 Threading the Needle Between Stratford and Woodstock
May 12, 2007 How Andre Boisclair Could Have Avoided Defeat
May 8, 2007 Ontario's Little Known Germ Warfare Program
May 6, 2007 Beware the Politician With the Courage to Say What She Thinks
March 28, 2007 Declaration of Independence
March 8, 2007 Quick Hits - March 8
February 14, 2007 Everything is About to Change?
February 13, 2007 Five Years of Blogging (and I'm not Stopping)
February 11, 2007 Justice Must be Blind, But it Should Still Make Sense
February 4, 2007 Vivian at 1¼
January 17, 2007 Portrait in Bubble
January 12, 2007 The Night Girl Passes 20,000 Words
December 31, 2006 The Year of Vivian
December 29, 2006 The Long Christmas
December 25, 2006 Merry Christmas 2006
December 20, 2006 Not a Tragedy
December 16, 2006 Grandma Cora Pheifer (1908-2006)
December 9, 2006 Sunset Over Ancaster
December 4, 2006 Night of the Underdogs
December 2, 2006 An Object Lesson in Identity Theft
November 25, 2006 Stop the Presses! Vivian Walks!
November 22, 2006 The Rise of the Machines
November 5, 2006 The Best Mexican Restaurant North (and South) of the Rio Grande?
November 2, 2006 Vivian Katherine's First Birthday
November 1, 2006 Vivian's First Halloween
October 25, 2006 Welcome Back Kot-- er.. Doctor! (School Reunion Reviewed)
September 2, 2006 Fortress Bow
August 28, 2006 Home Movies
July 10, 2006 Spirited Energy - Lame Marketing
July 8, 2006 Memorial
June 28, 2006 Complimenting Babies
June 24, 2006 The Importance of Being James II
June 21, 2006 First Steps
June 11, 2006 Vivian Katherine's Baptism
May 15, 2006 Mothering Sunday
May 8, 2006 Walking for Wendy
May 1, 2006 Mayday! Mayday! (Quick Hits for May 1st)
April 21, 2006 Ow! Ow! Ow! Where's the Secret Service Guys When You Need Them?
April 8, 2006 Nine Months
April 1, 2006 Erin Reads at the Brantford Armouries
March 25, 2006 A Surfeit of Oh So Cute!
March 19, 2006 The Sippy Cup Prodigy
March 7, 2006 Living With Writers
March 3, 2006 New Father's Moment
February 16, 2006 Proud Parenthood Moments
February 2, 2006 The End of the Fourth Trimester
January 19, 2006 The BANPC Doesn't Partake in the Political Trough
January 4, 2006 Wendy Noteboom Ewell Scholarship
December 31, 2005 The Year Everything Changed
December 28, 2005 Due North From Lincoln
December 25, 2005 Merry Christmas 2005
December 24, 2005 Hush Little Baby...
December 20, 2005 I Just Want to Know Why...
December 17, 2005 Sadness Is...
December 16, 2005 Happiness Is...
November 29, 2005 Olivia Chow Quits Council to go Federal
November 26, 2005 The Kindness of Strangers
November 24, 2005 The Missing Placesetting
November 15, 2005 Everything I Know about Pregnancy, I Learned by Madly Trying to Forget About Coupling
November 9, 2005 Vivian's Chinese Name
November 5, 2005 Baby Bureaucracy
November 4, 2005 Actually, Uncle Lars Won the Baby Pool
November 3, 2005 Vivian Katherine's Zeroth Birthday
October 31, 2005 Mother Earth
October 30, 2005 Ach, Crivens! (Wee Free Men Reviewed)
October 28, 2005 Forty Weeks!
October 26, 2005 Rosemary and Time now The Unwritten Girl
October 20, 2005 Hope for Humanity (Message to James DiBenedetto)
October 18, 2005 Google 2084
October 15, 2005 Thirty-Eight Weeks
October 5, 2005 The Centre of the Universe
September 30, 2005 Entering the Last Month of Pregnancy (We Hope)
September 23, 2005 Interesting Tidbits
August 13, 2005 Death Becomes Us (No, not really)
August 5, 2005 "Never Do Anything You Don't Love"
July 27, 2005 Canada: The Manual
July 23, 2005 Where Wendy Resides
July 20, 2005 Postcards from the Dead
July 19, 2005 For Wendy
July 10, 2005 Blog Off, For Now
June 27, 2005 Ultrasound Misconceptions
June 26, 2005 First Baby Pictures
May 7, 2005 The Ultimate in Suck
March 13, 2005 Defending (Oh, God) McGuinty
February 9, 2005 Third Blog Birthday; 1000th Blog Post and News
December 31, 2004 2004 in Review
September 3, 2004 Brace Yourself Florida
August 30, 2004 Memo to FEMA
August 9, 2004 Dreams Within Dreams
May 6, 2004 Tenth Anniversary
January 6, 2004 Reconquering the Bedroom - Death to Builders' Beige!
December 31, 2003 Farewell 2003
December 22, 2003 When Holidays Attack!
November 29, 2003 A Night on the Town
November 27, 2003 Literary Influences
November 13, 2003 Whew!
November 12, 2003 Big Day Today
October 24, 2003 Five Years Ago Today...
October 19, 2003 A Bevy of Apartment Improvements
October 18, 2003 What's Happening this Weekend
October 17, 2003 In Search of the Neighbourhood Gems
September 25, 2003 Really Interesting Things
September 18, 2003 So, How Did it Go?
September 14, 2003 Ghost Maps Has Landed
September 8, 2003 The Belle of Eden Mills
September 2, 2003 Back to School
August 24, 2003 Moving My Father's Fridge
August 18, 2003 R.I.P Freddy
August 17, 2003 Freddy's Last Stand
August 16, 2003 Sweet Sangria
August 11, 2003 Circulation Manager at Alternatives Journal
July 27, 2003 Running a Different Kind of Blogathon
July 7, 2003 Weekend Roundup
July 1, 2003 Happy Birthday Canada -- OW!!
June 29, 2003 In the Aftermath of Family Visits
June 26, 2003 Erin's Going to the Maritimes!
June 25, 2003 To Do This Week
June 22, 2003 Impossible Things
June 19, 2003 Free Furniture! Let's Get Stripping!
June 19, 2003 What's Happening to Me Lately
June 3, 2003 What I've Been Doing Today and Monday
June 1, 2003 Lazy Weekend
May 28, 2003 Conversations We Overhear Day to Day
May 27, 2003 Chugging Along
May 18, 2003 More Fireworks
May 17, 2003 Victoria Day Fireworks
May 12, 2003 The Hour of the Wolf
May 11, 2003 Salvation For A Dollar
May 5, 2003 A Quietly Productive Weekend
April 30, 2003 The End of the Cruelest Month
April 27, 2003 Recapturing My Time
April 12, 2003 Jam Cam!
April 1, 2003 A Meme from A to Z
March 23, 2003 Lazy Sunday Morning
March 15, 2003 The Sound of Silence
February 22, 2003 Wacky Saturday
February 14, 2003 And Happy Valentine's Day Too
February 3, 2003 A Wheem O Way! A Wheem O Way!
January 31, 2003 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
January 29, 2003 Been Down Ill
January 18, 2003 Conversation Between a Married Couple on a Saturday Afternoon
January 16, 2003 Driving Home From the Gym in Dan's Car
January 5, 2003 All Alone
January 2, 2003 It's Been a Good Holiday...
January 1, 2003 Goodbye 2002, Hello 2003
December 19, 2002 Getting Ready For Christmas
December 15, 2002 It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas
December 2, 2002 Welcome to December
November 28, 2002 Thursday Musings
November 12, 2002 Erin's iMac is Fixed!
October 28, 2002 Coraline
October 27, 2002 Busy Weekend
October 13, 2002 Thanksgiving in October
October 11, 2002 Words on a Friday Afternoon
September 30, 2002 The Vaguaries of Time
September 30, 2002 The Weekend and This Week
September 28, 2002 What A Way to Spend a Friday Evening
September 25, 2002 Buffy and the Remnants of Isidore
September 19, 2002 A Literary Minefield
September 17, 2002 The Mind Doesn't Like Walking Backwards
September 13, 2002 Back to School
September 10, 2002 The Ceiling Fan in the Kitchen
September 9, 2002 It's Getting Better All the Time
September 7, 2002 Schmoozing in Eden Mills
September 6, 2002 Reason Why I Hate Summer #3
September 4, 2002 Bathing a Cat
September 3, 2002 Holy Innocents
August 29, 2002 This Really Sucks (Updated)
August 28, 2002 Reasons for Optimism
August 25, 2002 Boys of Summer
August 24, 2002 Some Odds and Ends
August 23, 2002 Cluck Cluck Cluck
August 22, 2002 Getting Better Today
August 16, 2002 I'm Married to an Amazing Woman
July 28, 2002 MultiCultural Penicillin
July 27, 2002 Sick Bed
July 19, 2002 But That's Another Story
June 16, 2002 Fathers Day
June 12, 2002 Introducing Vivid
May 24, 2002 The Day the Furniture Turned Upside-Down
May 21, 2002 Publishing Erin!
April 29, 2002 End of a Work Era
April 20, 2002 Birthday Boy!
April 19, 2002 Thirty Years Ago Today...
April 14, 2002 wRites of Spring
April 9, 2002 Erin Wins Big Poetry Grant!
March 29, 2002 Erin Lands an Art Council Grant!
March 15, 2002 All By Myself
March 8, 2002 The Importance of Communication
March 5, 2002 Reading Before the UW English Society