Joe Perry Lake, Bon Echo Provincial Park
It was our family’s first attempt to stuff all our stuff into a canoe and camp. Irene and I used to do this sort of thing all the time. But it’s different now with a four year old.
The return of pinworms
Both readers of this blog may recall my older item about Mallory having pinworms. They’re back.
Irene and Mallory at Bon Echo
A bike ride
Not much of one, to be fair. Blackburn Hamlet and back – 53km all in. But considering I had to brush the cobwebs off the spokes of my road bike, I think it was a reasonable one. Yes, it’s been a long time since I got on my bike and rode, sans child.
Diversity of tactics = rubbish
I’m trying to make sense of this whole diversity of tactics business. And I can’t. I’m going to earn the enmity of a lot of folks who might normally consider me an ally, but what the hell. I understand the phrase to mean: deliberate property damage as a protest tactic is okay.
Leader summits: older and stupider
Though you’d scarcely think that possible given where we’ve been.
Rogers, let me add my iPad to my data plan
Sometime soon my iPad is going to be arriving. I ordered it first thing first morning it was available. I’m not normally an early adopter, but this thing has me excited. I ordered the 3G one, with all the RAM. And for $0.20 I ordered a Rogers SIM card for it.
Labo(u)r’s Media Strategy
I was on this panel at Labornotes 2010 on what the trade union movement’s media strategy should be. And Steve Zeltzer, the moderator, suggested that we write something about what were going to say and post it on the internet. I thought I’d oblige.
Two wheels and pedals
So Mallory did it today. She’s riding her bicycle with pedals and no training wheels.
Race and reporting: are we backsliding?
UPDATE: The Citizen has edited the online version of this story (haven’t seen a print copy) to just use ‘black’ and ‘white’. CBC has removed all references to race but notes that the victim shouted racial epithets at his killer.
Two media outlets reporting a verdict in a trial. Some guys get drunk and pick a fight with some other guys, complete with baseball bats. There’s a tussle and one of the picked-on guys grabs a bat from his tormentors.
Pedals off: Mallory’s bike training part two
Taking Lou Arab’s advice, I removed the pedals. It took a little convincing. Mallory at first thought she had failed a grade. We’re still working on things.
Mallory’s bike training part one
Mallory asked me the other week to take the training wheels off her bike. I think it had something to do with the Franklin book we got about the little turtle learning to ride a bike. I recall being older when the training wheels came off, but then I also recall hearing somewhere that training wheels are rubbish for helping ride a bike.
Oh and speaking of awesome friends, Laurie Kingston
Looking at three years’ of clean scans after being diagnosed with metatstatic breast cancer. Author, mom, advocate, blogger. I have endless admiration for Laurie.
I am very proud to call Evan Thornton my friend
I’ve known him since 1992, but I’m seeing a different side of him these days — medical pioneer. It makes me all the more proud of being his friend.
Hurt locker: CSI goes to Iraq and sweats a lot
This must have been a really bad year for movies. Or maybe the Academy wanted to reward a director for making a low-budget film where normally one would have expected them to blow more than the GNP of a populous, earthquake-ravaged Caribbean island to make 90 minutes of eye candy. Or maybe they thought ‘this is the year that we finally give best picture to a woman’.
