Yeah, so this Christmas? It’s been a tricky one. I’ve decorated some, sorted out gifts, and done what I could despite circumstances this month that have left us worn out and weary. It’s meant that doing ‘the next right thing’ just hasn’t included Christmas cookies or baking or even planning and prepping some of […]
On Monday, I watched as a town unraveled in a matter of minutes. Many of us did, I suspect, as unmasked reporters choked on tear gas, shots rang out, and fires erupted.
It would be so easy to say, “not my people, not my mess, not my country,” but I know that in my country, […]
Over the past couple of years, our family’s perspective on fair trade has completely shifted from being something ‘nice to do’ to being something ‘important to remember’. I’m so grateful to take my “What I Want My Daughter to Know” series over to the Ten Thousand Villages blog today. Join me there as I […]
Child, I’m rarely more proud to be a Canadian than on November 11th. We listen to readings of In Flanders’ Fields as a lone trumpeter plays The Lament, and then the determined yet heart-aching bag piper marches on and on and on. We see live images of stoic, teary-eyed veterans in decreasing numbers year […]
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