You and your kids are on the same team. I suggest that since homeschooling is now pretty much mandatory you think about adopting this as...

Teaching your kids from home, doesn’t mean trying to turn your home into a school. You can adopt a school style schedule, you can send...

It might not be the end of the world, but, it’s March and suddenly your kids are at home for the foreseeable future. Not only that, but...

The Coronavirus isn’t a race based illness. I feel like some news stories should lead with this tidbit of information. It is true that...

I wish I had something brilliant to say. I would dearly love to write words that would make you contemplate the impossible, the...

I would love to be writing about Skye and Pin Jun again this week. Explaining about Pin Jun’s struggles to accept that she could be...

I’m not great with timelines. I can’t tell you what year I graduated or how old I was when I moved to Winnipeg. I mean I could, but I...

It is a problem when I expect more from the students in my class than I can expect from the government of my country. I expect the kids I...

Guilt is a strange thing. I’m not sure if other writers feel guilt about what happens to their characters, but for me it is something...

“Thank you for taking the time to see me Mr. Prime Minister. I really believe that the technology I’m going to show you today could have...

Why do people think that their world is more dangerous now than it was thirty years ago? Last time I checked, there were no wars in...

Call me old fashioned, but I don’t think that people should kill each other. Especially on purpose. I’m not particularly versed on the...

If I were to write a thesaurus (which is not actually on the list of writing projects that I hope to fulfill), I would make perfection a...

The calendar tells me that another year is about to start. This time, it is not just another year, it is a whole new decade. (Does that...

Christmas is here. Our tree is filled with an odd assortment of mementos and treasures, the carols are playing (classic and traditional...

There's a new world in my head. This might be something that would be strange for some and alarming for others, but for me, it is a...

There are books that I read where the characters spring to life and take up a place in my mind and my heart. There are other books, where...

There is a magic to coincidence that I just love. Whether you believe a coincidence is a sign of karmic fate, or just a random twirl of...

Some weeks I have to search and wonder what to write about in my blog. I’ll look at the news and think about conversations I’ve had...

What does it mean to have a friend? To be a friend? When I was a kid, friends were the people you hung out with, the people who had your...