August 2009

The Price of having a family

August 26, 2009

Today, an Ontario Panel recommended that the Provincial health care system cover infertility treatments. Currently, almost all infertility treatments are paid for out of the patient’s pocket. And it can be a hefty fee. However, judging from the feedback I’ve been hearing, lots of people are pretty vocal about this issue. It’s too expensive! Why […]

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Things I am tired of.

August 26, 2009

1. Media circle jerks surrounding celebrity deaths. I don’t know why CNN felt that the intricate details of the vans that drove in and out of the Kennedy compound at 2AM were worthy of broadcast, but the seeming lack of logic around it didn’t stop them. Frankly, the media outlets have gotten so frenzied around […]

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See what it feels like now

August 22, 2009

I was just going to comment on this post of Dooce’s, honest I was, and then I realized I was going to say this and this and this and oh wait this too and then I decided I needed to write a post of my own because shit, she doesn’t need me blathering on her […]

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Ode to a kitty.

August 18, 2009

I moved to Ottawa in 1996. Back then, the only person I knew in town was my best friend from the time we both learned how to use crayons - Maggie. Maggie and I have a lot of things in common, one of which being our love of cats. Over the years, we’ve both been […]

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Birth story part the deux: Nurses, nipples and running like a bat out of hell

August 17, 2009

What they don’t tell you about childbirth: The aftermath can be just as much fun as the process itself. And when I say “fun” I mean “hell.” It’s been long enough now that I don’t think I can recall a chronological listing of events. They’re all still there in flashback form, but most of them […]

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