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COVID-19: the first six months

I had a haircut scheduled. Fiona was supposed to be doing her driving road test in a few days. It was March 17th, 2020. A week later my hair was longer than ever, and it would continue to grow for

Miranda October 3, 2020October 5, 2020 Being active, Family Matters, Gardening, Moving on, Parenting, The Natural World, Travel 1 Comment

Food management complexity

Honestly, I feel like my life is primarily about food management these days. I have one family member who goes to school five days a week and dances six days a week and who therefore needs eleven proper meals a

Miranda September 24, 2017September 24, 2017 Family Matters, Main No Comments

Raising teens in a digital world

When it comes to teens’ use of technology, I feel strongly that we should listen to what the experts have to say. Recently I’ve waded into several threads on social media about youth and digital media. One was sparked by

Miranda February 26, 2017July 1, 2017 Family Matters, Main, Parenting, Rants 4 Comments

Hughes Reunion

We rented an island. We were looking for a cottage that slept at least 14 comfortably, somewhere within half a day’s drive of both Toronto and Ottawa. And the island was what we found. Actually, my mom rented it, as

Miranda August 29, 2016 Family Matters, Travel No Comments

Conventional wisdom and unschooled teens

All four of my children grew up unschooling through their primary-school-aged years. Their learning was wide open, uncoerced, simultaneously lagging in some areas and massively precocious in others. It was typically highly efficient, mastery-oriented and interest-led. And then they all chose to attend school starting sometime

Miranda July 2, 2016February 8, 2019 Family Matters, Homeschooling, Main, School No Comments

Brahms Concerto

Fiona and I made a whirlwind trip to Vancouver. For me it was the second in as many weekends. Erin had pulled up her roots in Montreal, and was making a stop in the Vancouver area before heading home to the

Miranda May 9, 2016July 2, 2016 Family Matters, Main, Moving on, Music education No Comments

On being twelve

This isn’t about my own, current, 12-year-old, or about any of my former 12-year-olds. Maybe it’s a bit about the 12-year-old I used to be, and about who that has made me as a parent. It’s a copy and paste

Miranda November 28, 2015February 3, 2016 Family Matters, Main, Thinking about learning No Comments

Permission to Christmas

I give up. Now that Voices West is over, now that the first snow has fallen, now that Fiona is into the thick of preparing for holiday performances, now that plane tickets are booked for the grown-up kids to get

Miranda November 15, 2015February 3, 2016 Creativity, Family Matters, Main 1 Comment

Front Room

Oh look. I did some things. The front bedroom was uninhabitable when we took possession of the Nelson house. Over the summer Noah, Sophie and friends stripped and then repainted the two gyproc walls, but the ceiling was flaky acoustic

Miranda November 10, 2015February 3, 2016 Creativity, Family Matters, Main 1 Comment

Summer, here and gone

It was an early summer. The trees were greening up a good 3-4 weeks earlier than usual, and the season continued to unfurl early. The lake got “warm” (as warm as it ever does) in June. The wildfires were burning

Miranda September 2, 2015February 3, 2016 Being active, Family Matters, Main, Music education, Travel No Comments

A foot in both places

Yesterday we went to court. Thankfully we ended up being spectators only. The occasion was the seeking of approval by a foreclosing banking institution for the sale of a real estate property to us. A property in Nelson, comprising an old

Miranda May 1, 2015February 3, 2016 Family Matters, Main, Moving on No Comments

At the crashpad

Sharing our lives out between two residences feels good in a number of ways. The travel doesn’t feel onerous: Fiona and I are doing two trips a week, just like we did all last year. For Sophie I think it’s

Miranda December 16, 2014February 3, 2016 Family Matters, Homeschooling, Main, School No Comments

Orange is the new black

So we got a new vehicle. Compared to the old one it’s less boxy, less black, cuter and smaller. It’s also less backwards, having the steering wheel on the left, a fact that makes my three (yes three!) kids with Learner’s

Miranda December 16, 2014February 3, 2016 Family Matters, Main, Moving on No Comments

Those teen years…

With Noah reaching the official age of adulthood, Erin now into the start of her fourth year away from home and Sophie launching into a new, semi-independent life in another city, I’ve been thinking back to the post I wrote in

Miranda November 15, 2014February 3, 2016 Family Matters, Main, Moving on No Comments

The lay of the land

This is a sketch of how our week works. Brown travel-times are probably the first thing to notice, as they sandwich our Nelson days. We drive down Sunday evening, and back Monday evening. That gets Sophie there for the start

Miranda October 18, 2014February 3, 2016 Family Matters, Main No Comments
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