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5 Reasons My Kid Has a 40 Minute Bedtime Routine (Dentists love him!) #5MoreMinutes

November 17, 2015 By Food Retro

You see this kid? I wish this was my kid. Orderly bedtime has gone out the window, lately. Lately, my kid has been clocking in at no fewer than FORTY MINUTES to get ready for bed. This is after I pry him off of the screen or whatever else he’s doing and send him to get…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: #streamteam

Why I Won’t Vote Conservative, and Neither Should You

October 9, 2015 By Food Retro

Why I Won't Vote Conservative, and Neither Should You

The Conservative canvasser for David Sweet was by the other day, and he asked me if I knew who I was going to vote for. “Not you guys,” I replied. And then I apologized, because I’ve lived in Canada long enough to pick up that endearing habit of apologizing for everything. “Would you mind telling…

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Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42

I Went to an Apple Store and Forgot to Get Kool-Aid

October 8, 2015 By Food Retro

Why haven’t I gotten on the Apple bandwagon? Well, as a matter of fact I’ve been a proud Apple user several times–about once a decade since inception. But the straw that broke the camel’s back was an iBook in 2003 with a huge technical flaw that required its motherboard to be replaced about every 5 months,…

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Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42

Parents: 10 Life-changing Movies on Netflix Your Millennial Kids Must Watch #StreamTeam

May 28, 2015 By Food Retro

As a film school nerd married to a film buff, I’d argue that my six-year-old has already had a somewhat unconventional upbringing when it comes to popular cinema–we’ve plopped him in front of virtually every appropriate 80s and 90s movie (and even a few less appropriate ones) that we could get our hands on. Movies have…

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Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42, Things I Read Tagged With: #streamteam, sponsored

Food Challenges: Hypocrisy or a Lesson in Judgement?

May 8, 2015 By Food Retro

I’ve got people firing cannon shots at me over my decision to put my family on a version of the SNAP challenge for the month of May. I am a hypocrite, some say, for being a middle-class person “pretending to be poor.”  If you believe this is true of me, here is what I say to…

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Filed Under: Deep (Granola) Thoughts, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Hunger Games, Tales

How a Purple Backpack and My Son Taught Me a Lesson in Being Unbreakable

April 23, 2015 By Food Retro

The look on my six-year-old’s face let me know that it wasn’t a good day. Moms can tell. Unfortunately, I also had an idea what might be wrong. You see, I was recently gifted a brand new Jansport backpack. A lovely, bright purple backpack. It was part of a promotional package for the Netflix show The Unbreakable…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: #streamteam, bullying, parenting

Food for Thought

March 30, 2015 By Food Retro

It’s been a couple of weeks, yeah I know. I’ve been hiding behind the excuse of cleaning and not wanting to add to my stress, but I’m going to have a food post up probably tomorrow– Hello? Anybody out there? *taps mic* OK, well maybe this post will be just for me so I don’t forget…

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Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42

The Littlest Accountant

February 20, 2015 By Food Retro

Hubs and I have an ongoing joke about kidlet: he’s probably going to be an accountant someday. If you ask him what he wants to be when he grows up, the answer is vague. I suppose that’s okay; after all, mommy never exactly figured out what she really wanted to do with her life either…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: #streamteam, Tales

Once Upon a Time, I Wanted to Write Books

January 14, 2015 By Food Retro

In the category of “things you probably don’t know about me,” like many most writers, I knew I wanted to write for years. This was something that was encouraged, and even lauded as part of a familial tradition. My grandfather was a writer, although he was more of the historian persuasion–he’s actually responsible for a…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: #streamteam, parenting, Tales

How to Stay Married. Forever.

December 4, 2014 By Food Retro

I haven’t yet been able to wrap my head around the fact that it’s Christmas time, much less that my 16th anniversary is this weekend. It occurs to me that we’ve had a longer, better marriage than a great many people we know. It’s a shame, I guess. Although I do know that people tend to…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, SLIDER, The Answer is 42

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