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We’ve returned to Canada and returned to our favourite adventures, which have the pretty incredible bonus of being free: visiting various libraries. In many places around the world, libraries are sanc...

I wanted to share some more photos from last weekend’s TheCoffeeMonsterszCo workshops and pop-up. Some of these are from Sean (thank you!) who was there for some of the workshops I missed.

This past wh...

2025 is barrelling towards me! I’m paralyzed by fear and indecision, in the face of imminent crushing! How will I survive??

I may not. Or I may! Who knows! Changes are happening rapidly in life, as alw...

TheCoffeeMonsterzCo is coming to town! Actually, Helen has already arrived, and we have been futzing about and setting up shelves and price tagging things and eating ramen and printing worksheets and ...

I’ve come home from Taipei, and headed straight back into the library.

By total happenstance, I picked up two books by two of my favourite authors that are so completely different and yet entwined toge...

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival! Which I think is one of my favourite of the Chinese holidays, because it centers mainly around eating mooncake. There might be a few other things involved. There is pos...

The cats are alive and well—or, at least, mostly well. Chicken continues to feast on his expensive veterinary diet of which Tuna has an occasional crumb, and the vet has confirmed they seem to both be...

The kids have reentered their native habitat, their school, where they exist in their own world and do their own things and have their own languages and code names and habits that I know nothing about...

A month ago (a month ago!) we were so lucky to have The Superior Labor visit us here in Toronto. An unbelievable dream five years in the making, briefly interrupted by Covid, but rising again.

I never ...

While in Taiwan, Naomi had taken to starting her journal entries: “Once upon a time in Taiwan…” Which was wonderful! And funny and quirky and so totally Naomi.

If you’re traveling with kids who are abl...