Month: July 2008

I’ve been really touched by all the responses to my call for recipes. Thanks, and keep ’em coming! As repayment, here’s a link to a really interesting interview with Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Grameen bank, which pioneered the micro-credit lending idea that has helped thousands of families out of… Continue reading Don't Tell Me About Problems, Tell Me What You're Going To DO

My neighbour lost his wife last week, suddenly, shockingly. Amidst his grief he is now going to have to learn to be a single parent to his four-year old daughter, hairdresser, housekeeper, chief cook and bottle washer, and did I mention single parent? The mind boggles. And the awful thing is, this is not the… Continue reading Cooking With Dad

This post is not about this month’s NaBloPoMo theme, food, unless you count the bit about McDonald’s. It’s also enjoying a guest-blogger spot, having jumped over here from my family blog, so anyone who has read the boys’ journal needn’t read on It was 2.45 and after a full day of fighting with his brother,… Continue reading Not About Food

OK, this is a bit out of season, since it’s some company’s online Christmas greeting, but it was good, nonethless. It’s called It’s A Wonderful Internet and is a spoof of It’s A Wonderful Life, of course.  The thing is, though…I am George. Without the girlfriend. http://www.itsawonderfulinternet.com/

Introducing my newest idea: Mondays are for the Millennial Mothers (and dads too. And aunts and uncles, grandparents and friends. It’s just more alliterative this way…) We are raising kids at the start of a new millennium. What are we doing? What are the challenges, old and new? Are we different from, or turning into,… Continue reading Millennial Mom Monday — Great Books To Read With/To Kids