Culture
This shirt is one of my kid’s favourite. If you don’t pull down the pocket it’s a perfectly innocent cat. But of course nobody is innocent, especially not cats. Or children. All this to say, enough with the hypocrisy already. We all swear, think dirty thoughts (some
Gender
I don’t know how I managed to miss this piece the first time it ran but here I am with a vengeance. Tom Blackwell, writing in the notoriously TERFian National Post (I mean, it publishes Barbara Kay, for fuck’s sake), clutched some nasty stinking rotting pearls at the
Fiction
Four-letter words, the prompt said. Well that’s a struggle. No, not like that. I have lots of swear words swirling around my brain. I am a military-grade swearing machine. I mean, not to boast or anything, but I’m practically a walking verbal weapon. And because I swear in
Fiction
This is a piece I wrote in 2017 that I recently rediscovered as I was decluttering my online cupboard. It’s weird how your life can change in five years. My kids are now almost all teenagers (the one who isn’t is working hard at it). I’m no
Fiction
Early summer 2021. The grocery store. Oh look. Cookies and cream ice cream on special. My kids love cookies and cream ice cream. Bring a tub home. Look kids, I’m not just an evil vegetable tyrant, got you some ice cream! I hate cookies and cream. (Times two, the
Parenting
Hey, moms. Can you hear me over the incessant din inside your head? I see you. Man, do I ever. Here you are, having abruptly begun your homeschooling career in March, while struggling to work from home — if you’re fortunate enough to still have a job; a questionable benefit
Parenting
Hey! Are you stuck at home, practicing your social distancing skills and desperately trying to do your office work from your kitchen table while your toddlers pull on your legs every 1.3 seconds? Welcome! I spawned three amazing little humans inside of four years. My legs are now permanently
Parenting
It had to happen sooner or later. That’s why I’d prepared my kids for that possibility, by explaining that adults were so unused to seeing kids allowed to be competent by themselves that they might call the cops on them. I can’t control what other people do,