What with her three adopted children, recent birthing of twins, and husband Brad’s increasingly haggard mug, the rumors that Angelina Jolie is pregnant again have compounded an already drama-riffic life. Everyone is sick of hearing about this lippy femme and her do-gooding and her cat-fighting and her award-winning and her baby-making, but no one can […]
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Alberta delivers on midwives’ potential
By Jodi A. Shaw I prefer not to know the finer details of child birth. Instead, I’d rather wait my turn to experience it, and find out the good, the bad, and the ugly of pregnancy and delivery. A pregnant co-worker, however, has been spoiling some of the secrets for me . . . and […]
Brian’s band
By Bev Schellenberg Sunday, September 21st, I accepted two awards on behalf of my brother, Brian Jaundrew, at the Victoria Rock & Roll Music Hall of Fame award ceremony. Brian chose not to attend. Dave Kissinger, a former guitarist of The Regents, contacted me through Facebook a few months ago. He explained that The Regents, […]
Little Ms. Cobain celebrates a birthday
Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of the late Kurt Cobain, recently decided to throw herself a “Suicidal Sixteen” birthday party. Now look, I’m all for themed parties, and if any other teenage girl planned this macabre festivus, I suppose we’d just shake our heads and mutter something about kids today before returning to our “Murder She […]
Thankyou, Robert Fulghum
By Bev Schellenberg Students young and old have returned to school, a yearly phenomenon as certain in September as rainfall in Vancouver. Depending on where you stand on the conveyor belt of life, you likely fit somewhere between ecstatic-that-school-has-begun (as in the case of most parents, some students, and some more senior mall-frequenters) to unfazed-and-basically-unaware […]
Attack of the RVs
By Jodi A. Shaw I am not particularly fond of outhouses. I don’t like the way they smell when I walk past them, I don’t like the crowd of flies buzzing around them, and not for one second do I enjoy squatting over a hole or chute or whatever form it takes. I am, however, […]
How I became a Bad Ass Trucker (and why I might stop)
Bev Schellenberg My daughter spotted a sign on a big pickup as we drove home the other day. “Bad Ass Truck” it read. “Look, Mom,” she said. “That truck says Bad — [she paused, not wanting to use a naughty word] — you know, like ‘donkey’ — Truck.” The sign was right, though; it was […]
Mom and the MacBook
My mom is a Linux-using grandma who travels a lot. Recently she required medical attention while in another city, and wound up in hospital for several weeks. I felt very sorry for her. Yes, for the medical concerns, of course, but also because she was cut off from the internet. Even her brother, my octogenarian […]
I am not an incubator
By Jodi A. Shaw I got married a year ago. I get asked on a regular basis when we are going to have kids. It didn’t start recently; it began only weeks after the ring was on my finger. “When are you going to have kids? When are you going to have kids?” At first […]
