Archive for the 'Happy' Category

Thinking about next year: Breast of Canada calendars

Yazan: Candace | 26 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Happy

Sue Richards of The Calendar Girl Blog, My Menopause Blog, and The Breast of Canada Calendar is an amazing woman. I met her at BlogHer 2006 in San Jose but I’ve known of her for years. I have (somewhere in my house) the very first Breast of Canada calendar and framed on my bedroom wall, […]

Cleaning, Purging, Finding, Remembering

Yazan: Candace | 11 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Divorce, Family, Happy, Life, Relationships

I have been trying to make the house more functional. When we first moved here years ago the house was gross – a real fixer-upper but all we could afford: fillled with mouse poo, dog pee in every room, angry holes had been smashed in the walls, graffiti was everywhere and these were just the […]

More on lists and routines

Yazan: Candace | 27 August 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Culture, Family, Happy, Life, Relationships

I’ve written about lists before and now Rob is writing about lists too. After reading Rob’s post (based on a conversation with Jeff) there’s an advantage to making a list that I think he hasn’t realized. I know that when I see another person’s list, I know how I can best help them. I’m a […]

Getting Ready for BlogHer 2006

Yazan: Candace | 24 July 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Blogher, Happy, Life, Third Wave

BlogHer begins in 4 days. Here are some of the things I’ve been doing to get ready (in no particular order): Choose sessions! (Day One) here and (Day Two) here. So many things look interesting and I’m not sure how I’ll manage to be in more than one place at a time. I’m really hoping […]

Old Women

Yazan: Candace | 09 May 2006 | 2 Comments
Categories: Aging, Bodies, Culture, Feminism, Happy, Life, Third Wave

I’m getting older… single mom, couple of kids…I’m relatively casual, a jeans and t-shirt person predominantly although on a hot day I’ll wear a long loose skirt. I don’t wear make-up, I have a practical shoulder length haircut which I tie in a ponytail when I’m teaching dance classes. My hair is string straight and […]

Are you a list person?

Yazan: Candace | 20 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

Do you make lists? Do you hate lists? Do you realize there are different kinds of lists? First there are the lists that give you chores to do. Often other people make these lists for you: wash windows, clean eavestroughs, fix the faucet, clean the clutter off the counter, catch up the mending, etc. Lists […]

Learning to enjoy life

Yazan: Candace | 20 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

I’m learning some things. I’m trying to learn to enjoy life more. I’ve been participating at 43 places.com and looking at all the beautiful places there are in the world to visit, all the amazing history to see, all the cool people to meet and watching the people who are really doing all of this. […]

summer at last

Yazan: Candace | 19 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life, Photography, School

This summer is much needed. Classes are over finally and my exams are done. I have two final papers due next week that I will have to write sometime but I’m not thinking about that right now. I need a break. I have been a full time student for 8 semesters straight now. I got […]

Happy? February 26, 2006

Yazan: Candace | 26 February 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

Happy things for today: I found skates – they’re bright blue and they’re comfortable. Not to shabby considering it’s February, winter’s almost over here, and I had to go to more than one store to find them. Skating was excellent. I took my kids, my s.o. brought his, and other friends brough their three. We […]

When I Need Help Getting Happy

Yazan: Candace | 26 February 2006 | 5 Comments
Categories: Culture, Feminism, Happy, Women's Studies

When I need help getting back to feeling good about what I’m doing, I like to read Gendergeek.org’s FAQ page In clear language, they summarize the reasons why we’re doing what we do as feminists: We would like to live in a world where women weren’t subject to male violence; where work of equal value […]

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