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Gift Guide: Interactive Games for Preschoolers
It’s that time of year again, As you make your way down your list, checking who’s been naughty or nice, you’ll want to have to some good gift ideas in your back pocket. For my part, I always try to...
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Sunday Snippet: Instead I Held You (Regan Long)
Today my patience has run thin and all I could think about was having a few minutes to myself, but as you fell fast asleep on my chest, it was an easy choice despite a list of things needing to be...
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10 Movies That Had an Impact
Unsurprisingly, I roll in a circle with a lot of other mom and dad bloggers. Despite our many differences, we also have a lot in common. In one thread, we were asked how often we went out on a “date...
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A Serious Matter (or What We Can Learn from Ken Jeong)
I get it. The simplest life lessons are also the hardest to follow. Most of us can understand these lessons on an intellectual level, but it’s a whole matter altogether to internalize them. To live...
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Sunday Snippet: Andy Grove (1936-2016)
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little. Andras Istvan Grof, better known simply as Andy Grove, was Intel’s third employee when the company was founded in 1968. He would later...
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My Everyday Routine: 5 Things That Might Surprise You
A more conventional career path would have seen me going to school for something practical. Something that would lead more directly and more obviously to a specific profession. Perhaps I would go on...
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What’s Up Wednesdays: November to Remember
It’s beginning to look a lot like like… well, you know the rest. With both Thanksgivings behind us, it’s to fully engulf ourselves in eggnog and gingerbread houses. And mixed media art projects too, I...
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The Best (Not Really) Christmas Movies for Action Buffs
You’re probably familiar with iconic Christmas movies like It’s a Wonderful Life and Elf. Maybe you’ve got a soft spot for animated classics like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Rudolph the...
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Sunday Snippet: David Chariandy
You did not create the inequalities and injustices of this world, daughter. You are neither solely nor uniquely responsible to fix them. If there is anything to learn from the story of our ancestry,...
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21 Secret Santa Gift Ideas Under $25
I’m participating in a couple of secret Santa gift exchanges this year with some fellow bloggers. Maybe you’ve got one as part of the annual holiday office party. Or perhaps you’re planning one with a...
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Masita Korean Restaurant (Burnaby)
When it comes to Korean food, two of my favorite places are Kimbab Cheonguk and House of Tofu Soup. Both of those are located along North Road near Lougheed Highway on the Burnaby-Coquitlam border....
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Sunday Snippet: Emily Mortimer
It’s like jumping out of an airplane or something. Everything in your body is telling you not to, and that you shouldn’t, and that it’s an insane thing to do. And that it would be much safer not to....
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[VLOG] Our Family Holiday Traditions
It’s been a hot minute since we’ve had a vlog, huh? While I wouldn’t go quite so far as to say this is some sort of Christmas special, I thought the festive season warranted a special episode...
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Woebot Lists My Three Greatest Strengths
I’d like to think that I have a certain way with words. That’s partly how I got into freelance writing in the first place, after all. It’s what I do for a living. And while I don’t consider myself...
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Friday Favorites: Puzzle Games
I’m a lifelong gamer. More or less. It would have been some time in the mid-1980s that I picked up my first controller on the old Atari. Missile Command and Defender were my jam. Over the years, I’ve...
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Sunday Snippet: Daniel Kahneman
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. Hello. My name is Michael Kwan and I have protagonist disease. Try as I might to the contrary, I still go about life...
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The Words of the Year for 2018
Trying to sum up an entire year in one word (or term) isn’t easy. As you know, my guiding words are forward-thinking (though I did do a retrospective). By contrast, the words of the year chosen by...
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Earning “Me Time” Without Guilt?
I know I can’t be the only one. There are all sorts of life lessons we understand on an intellectual level, but they feel practically impossible to put into practice. You should sleep more. You should...
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Don’t Change Much
When you set out to make big, sweeping, audacious changes to your life, there’s a good chance that you’ll come up short. It’s deflating and defeating, to the point where you’re not all that motivated...
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Sunday Snippet: Home Alone
This is extremely important. Will you please tell [Santa] that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back? No toys. Nothing but Peter, Kate, Buzz, Megan, Linnie, and Jeff. And my aunt...
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