Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
When my doctor’s office called me back a couple weeks following a routine physical, I had a sick feeling of dread. “Irregular pap,” the doctor’s assistant said. Cervical cancer!? My mind panicked. But my mouth, fortunately, knew what to say. “What happens now?”
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…
Who knew that when I took away screen time, I would create a monster? It started innocently enough. My son was being a crabby little human being, who was watching annoying YouTubers using text to talk to say annoying things like “prankster gangster.” So I, in a moment of supreme mommy-ness, declared that screen and…
Last year, I did an article about shows on Canadian Netflix to help keep your grade-school-aged French Immersion child in practice over the summer break. Wow, was it surprisingly popular! I decided to do a new version for 2016, since a lot of new shows have come out!
This parenthood thing. I used to think it was the hardest thing I’d ever encountered when kidlet was an infant. Looking back, I can’t help but think, what the heck was I thinking?
It’s funny. Although it has been a mild winter compared to last year, this year seemed rougher. February in particular was a dark and dank month. The weather was unpleasant, people were isolated, and it just. Dragged. On. But hey, the sun is coming back, the grass is green, and the weather was even tolerably nice…
Believe it or not, FoodRetro and its owner have birthdays that aren’t too far apart. While I was content to merely announce “Hey, FoodRetro’s turning 3!” instead of “Oh my god, I’m getting old!” my mom had some other ideas. She texted me to let me know this post was in the system, and perhaps it’s…
I’ve concluded that February is the suckiest month of the year. I don’t know who decided to make it a month of romance, but as a cabin-fevered woman who is sick of the snow and who hasn’t had a night out since last year, I can say definitely that at least they were smart enough to…
This cold that’s been going around is so yucky, the winter has been so dreary, and I’ve felt like such a shut-in, I admit I haven’t taken as much joy as I usually do in things like baking and cooking. Or anything. The result is that we’ve been eating less healthy, and that has just…
The pop-ularity of a simple bowl of popcorn cannot be overstated in my household. To be honest, my love affair with the bright yellow kernels began as a child while helping my grandfather every weekend pop, bag, and seal huge bags of this delectable snack, which were then delivered to local pubs, “mom and pop”…