Tag Archives: family

Is it Still A Vacation if You Don’t Go Anywhere?

Posted on 5/1/2009 by cheesefairy

On May 26th, my husband and I will have been married 8 years; the past three with kids. These years have been pleasant, with most of the usual ups and downs of a relationship. It’s possible we experienced the 7-year-itch … Continue reading →

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Around the Corner And Down the Way

Posted on 12/26/2008 by cheesefairy

“We’re coming,” I told my mom on the phone Wednesday morning. Snow dumping from the sky, incessant. Children running madly around the house, cabin-fevered after days of impassable sidewalks. “OK,” she said, “Your father is worried you won’t make it … Continue reading →

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Calm Before The

Posted on 12/24/2008 by cheesefairy

It just keeps snowing and snowing and snowing! Not news to you East of Surrey people but hereabouts it’s like I’m a goldfish in a tiny bowl, peeking out the window every time I pass one, gasping at the snow … Continue reading →

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What We Don’t Inherit, We Get in the Mail

Posted on 12/5/2008 by cheesefairy

I read a piece in the Globe and Mail yesterday about in-laws. Apparently those old saws about mothers-in-law have been investigated and the findings are in; mothers are engineered to compete with their (sons’ female) mates. Whether or not this … Continue reading →

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In Which Our Souls Are Definitely Captured

Posted on 11/24/2008 by cheesefairy

I consider myself photogenic in a fairly specific way. If I am captured on film doing something I enjoy, while I am actively enjoying it and am in no way aware that the camera is on me? I am pretty … Continue reading →

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