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Will Your Child Be Canada’s Next Cartoonist?

September 22, 2016 By Food Retro

For a long time, when I was a kid, I wanted to be some sort of an artist. Maybe an animator or just a famous painter. I drew a lot. My mom kept an uncomfortable number of drawings I made when I was 3. I kept doodling up until I was an adult, encouraged by…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, Friendly People I Meet, The Answer is 42

There’s Still Time to Sponsor Me for #WalkForSickKids!

September 18, 2015 By Food Retro

If you were thinking about sponsoring my walk in The Canaccord Genuity Great Camp Adventure Walk to benefit SickKids Campaign and helping the Sick Kids raise their target of $2 million, there’s still time! 8 days remain before our big walk with the BLUNTmoms, and we could really use your help trying to make our goal. Even if…

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Filed Under: Friendly People I Meet, The Answer is 42, The Places We'll Go Tagged With: giveaway, sponsored

Help Me Benefit The Canaccord Genuity Great Camp Adventure Walk on September 26! #WalkForSickKids

August 28, 2015 By Food Retro

For those of you who have been readers for a while, you know I donate heavily towards food security for the needy. But I live in Hamilton, home to McMaster Children’s hospital, so helping sick kids also something I do a lot.  It’s a terrible fact of life that children get hurt or ill. We all…

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Filed Under: Friendly People I Meet, The Answer is 42, The Places We'll Go Tagged With: sponsored

The Hero Within (A Guest Post By Mom Retro)

August 19, 2015 By Food Retro

The Hero Within (A guest post by Mom Retro)

(Hey readers, my mom is covering my butt this week with a guest post during the start of our bathroom renovation project. This is the lady who used to threaten to ground me for making comma splices. You can see it’s stood me in good stead all these years later. Enjoy! –Anne)

Filed Under: Deep (Granola) Thoughts, Friendly People I Meet, The Answer is 42

How to Teach Kids to Not Be Bullies Online (+ Win a Copy of Kindness Wins!)

June 19, 2015 By Food Retro

Resources for those teaching kids to navigate the internet: we need to teach children how to be kind online | bullying | books | helpful tips

I’ve been online since the dawn of the graphical browser, and its amazing how much the internet has changed. But what’s also amazing is how much it has also stayed the same in so many ways–bullies have been online, writ large, since the days that the internet was strictly text-only. But in my day, I…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, Friendly People I Meet, The Answer is 42, Things I Read

Blog Moar Month! – #NaBloPoMo (or Something)

November 4, 2014 By Food Retro

Secret confession: to be perfectly honest, I thought the appropriate hash was NaNoBloMo, but after the first time I said it aloud, I could see how it was up for a revision. Whoops. I’m not usually predisposed to these various self-competitions, because what is the point, really? Heck, I wander around doing whatever I feel like…

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Filed Under: Friendly People I Meet, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: #NaBloPoMo, Health & Home, Tales

An Intro to Tea Snobbery

September 23, 2014 By Food Retro

I am a tea-drinker, though a lazy (bag-tea) one more often than not. But if you think you love tea, you should be introduced to the beauty of REAL clever blends of loose-leaf tea, and you will never find them on a grocery store shelf. My friend Angila, who lives a bit west near London, Ontario, once mailed…

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Filed Under: Friendly People I Meet, SLIDER, The Answer is 42

Be a Champion of the #ONGreenbelt

September 10, 2014 By Food Retro

You may have caught me blabbing from time to time about hiking around the waterfalls. With over 100 of them in the area, my town, Hamilton, is sometimes called the City of Waterfalls. Undisputed waterfall capital of the world. Some of them are wee little trickles, but many of them are quite lovely! And most are…

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Filed Under: Deep (Granola) Thoughts, Friendly People I Meet, SLIDER, The Answer is 42

How to Love Your Bloggers (In a Strictly Platonic Way)

August 6, 2014 By Food Retro

Summer is a tough time for many bloggers. Not only are many of us juggling a kid or three who is home from school, but many of you, dear readers, are off on vacations of your own. We’re not jealous. Too much (Okay, hey, would it be too much to send us a postcard?). A lot…

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Filed Under: Friendly People I Meet, SLIDER, The Answer is 42

BlissDom, Ho!

July 30, 2014 By Food Retro

I wasn’t able to scrape together the funds to get to BlogU, BlogHer or BlogHer Food this year (we’ll try for one of them next year, crossing fingers), but there’s one more bloggers conference of this year in October that I’m going to make sure I get to. It’s Canadian, and just in Mississauga, plenty…

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Filed Under: Friendly People I Meet, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Tales

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