Archive for the 'Life' Category

Good things

Yazan: Candace | 08 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Culture, Family, Feminism, Food, Happy, Life, Relationships, Third Wave, Women's Studies

I am in such a wonderfully good place right now. There are still enough days between now and due dates that I’m not yet in full freakout, and I am surrounded by the most wonderful and caring people anyone could know. It began yesterday with some sweet things my kids said, then I was surprised […]

Too Socialist

Yazan: Candace | 08 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Culture, Language, Life, Religion, School

I seem to be in a perpetual struggle for a secular education for my kids at the local public school. This past week my daughter brought home a spelling worksheet with the sentence “Insects are one of the many creatures God created. The word insects was underlined to be replaced with one of the list […]

Say thank you

Yazan: Candace | 16 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Happy, Life

I found this post in my draft folder. Since I just lost the wonderful post I’d written about citing wikipedia I decided to look back and see what’s just sitting around getting stale. I opened this one because it had an interesting title and I wanted to see what I was so happy about that […]

The Disease called Poverty

Yazan: Candace | 11 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Life

Here’s what I’d like to know: For how long can a person be really really poor and still actually one day not live in poverty? There are plenty of overnight success stories floating around and the ever present protestant work ethic mentality: if you work hard you will succeed. But how many of the success […]

In another life

Yazan: Candace | 08 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Aging, Life, School, Technology

In another life I wanted to be an aerospace engineer. This was back in grade 11 physics, which I loved. My teacher recognized that and talked to me about engineering, and I was drawn in to aerospace. I wanted to make rockets. I was sure that this is what I would do until I discovered […]

Driving too slow

Yazan: Candace | 06 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Life, School

I went to a grad school workshop today (not inspiring). And then I read this from Joel Spolsky, posted a week and a half ago on Joel on Software. The combination of the two is pretty bad. You see, if you can’t whiz through the easy stuff at 100 m.p.h., you’re never gonna get the […]

What my awesome kid did today

Yazan: Candace | 13 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life, Relationships

Between meeting his schoolbus, eating dinner and taking my daughter to aikido, my youngest son (5 years old) came up to me for a hug and noticed I was wearing the bead necklace/hairband he’d made me last week. He was so happy to see it on me – to know that I really and truly […]

Racism in the bathwater

Yazan: Candace | 12 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Diversity, Life, Racism

Background: Canada funds two school systems: the public and the separate (Catholic) in both official languages, French and English. Incidentally, there are private Fundamentalist Christian schools, a Mennonite school, and an Islamic school in the local community that receive no government support. Parents whose children attend these schools are still required to pay taxes to […]

Gelatin in Becel??

Yazan: Candace | 24 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Food, Life

Since when is there gelatin in becel margarine? The kids like margarine on a bagel now and then – or on corn on the cob. A container lasts us a really long time so I don’t mind spending a bit more to get something with ingredients I can pronounce. I read labels today at the […]

Spread ’em

Yazan: Candace | 18 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Aging, Bodies, Life, Relationships, Sexuality

There may be too much information here but just know that you’ve been warned… I’ve been having irregular, unexplained pain in and around the area of my ovaries and uterus – completely incapacitating pain to the point of tears – for the past ten months or so. It used to only last a few hours […]

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