Ten things I’ve learned from selling kitchen supplies door-to-door
People do not like to be bugged at home. Cookies and tea and some real human hospitality are a miracle for a teenage lad in the freezing Toronto winter. If you steal change from a donut store to pay...
View ArticleGuestpost #39: Michael Mackay – Ten things I’ve learned from working in a...
Mike is one of my longest (i.e. he is tall AND we have known each other since high school) friends. We still hang out, play basketball, and go to soca fetes together from time to time (we are busy...
View ArticleGuestpost #50: M – Ten things I've learned from my first year of working at UVic
Note: My name is M, and I’ve worked at the University of Victoria for almost a year. I got my BA for History In Art here, and have learned just how different it is to work here than be a student. Not...
View ArticleCulture: The Dark Side *Does* Have Cookies!
The Dark Side of the Force has cookies?!? [Source: Mark's Technology News] The post Culture: The Dark Side *Does* Have Cookies! appeared first on The Good Men Project.
View Article“What gift do you get for someone who’s dying? Buy her a nice dress and slow...
This is a comment by ViveLeRamen on the post “What Gift Do You Get for Someone Who’s Dying?“ ViveLeRamen said: “You buy her a nice dress and slow dance in the living room. You spend hours cooking...
View ArticleDad Keeps Secrets for Sanity
Photo by Jerry Mahoney Dad admits to the 10 biggest secrets he keeps from his kids Hey guys, it’s me, Daddy, and I’m only writing this post because you can’t read, you don’t know what a blog is and...
View Article“If someone makes fun of my son because of the color of his oven, that person...
This is a comment by wellokaythen on the post “My Sons’ Easy-Bake Oven Shame“. wellokaythen said: “If I had a son, I’d want him to learn how to feed himself, and cook for himself, as soon as is age...
View ArticleConversations with My 2-Year-Old: The Cookie Edition (Video)
Matthew Clarke’s conversation with his daughter about her really wanting a cookie is reenacted with him and another full-grown adult. From The Huffington Post: The Convos With My 2-Year-Old duo is...
View ArticleThrow Away Your Cookie Cutters
This holiday season, Jarad Dewing urges you to forgo the traditional molds and let creativity reign. Every other weekend, I drive 100 miles south to my parents’ house to hang out with my children....
View ArticleA Stay-At-Home Dad Declares “I am a Mother”
Blogger and stay-at-home dad Adam Hall knows he fills a non-traditional role. He would like you to understand exactly what that role is — once he figures it out himself. — I am not a mother, in case...
View Article“What gift do you get for someone who’s dying? Buy her a nice dress and slow...
This is a comment by ViveLeRamen on the post “What Gift Do You Get for Someone Who’s Dying?“ ViveLeRamen said: “You buy her a nice dress and slow dance in the living room. You spend hours cooking...
View ArticleDad Keeps Secrets for Sanity
Photo by Jerry Mahoney Dad admits to the 10 biggest secrets he keeps from his kids Hey guys, it’s me, Daddy, and I’m only writing this post because you can’t read, you don’t know what a blog is and...
View Article“If someone makes fun of my son because of the color of his oven, that person...
This is a comment by wellokaythen on the post “My Sons’ Easy-Bake Oven Shame“. wellokaythen said: “If I had a son, I’d want him to learn how to feed himself, and cook for himself, as soon as is age...
View ArticleConversations with My 2-Year-Old: The Cookie Edition (Video)
Matthew Clarke’s conversation with his daughter about her really wanting a cookie is reenacted with him and another full-grown adult. From The Huffington Post: The Convos With My 2-Year-Old duo is...
View ArticleThrow Away Your Cookie Cutters
This holiday season, Jarad Dewing urges you to forgo the traditional molds and let creativity reign. Every other weekend, I drive 100 miles south to my parents’ house to hang out with my children....
View ArticleA Stay-At-Home Dad Declares “I am a Mother”
Blogger and stay-at-home dad Adam Hall knows he fills a non-traditional role. He would like you to understand exactly what that role is — once he figures it out himself. — I am not a mother, in case...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Contagious Christmas Spirit Fails to Launch
When Gavin Lodge and Ellyn Marie Marsh meet in the park, Martha Stewart Holiday Crafts meets Ebenezer Scrooge and the mash-up isn’t pretty. Here’s what happens. — The post What Happens When...
View ArticleOde to Grandmother Hilda
Embed from Getty Images Memories can be sweet and painful. — You were a box on our family room book shelf. A box made to look like a book, brown leathered with a binding. It was a faux book, with a...
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