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 Monday, May 19, 2008

Benefits of the zoo

Life and death, death and life.

The death of basically all of the Calgary Zoo's stingrays last week made national headlines. Here we are at the stingray exhibit just over week ago, when everything was still going well.



It was a cool exhibit. Sloane and I both chickened out when the rays got too close to our hands, though. No thanks for me! I'm still with the "that's a wild animal and it doesn't want me touching it" opinion I had back in 2004, in Australia.

...But also I'm scared of fish n' shit, yo.




Any guesses as to what else we saw at the zoo? I found this little tableau on the coffee table the next day.

Categories: Calgary | Sloane

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 Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Jaipur Bombings

In grief for the Jaipur bombings, which were given all of 8 seconds on Canada's national news broadcast tonight. In 2000, Jenna and I stood in the place where three of the bombs went off, had our photos taken by a street vendor, toured the Palace of the Winds. Thoughts with you tonight, Jaipuris.


Categories: India

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 Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Women Are Not Stupid

Cheers to Ellie Levenson, UK-based freelance journalist and friend of our man JJ. She's begun a campaign in Great Britain to allow women advance access to emergency contraception ("the morning-after pill"). See her site here: http://www.womenarenotstupid.co.uk/.



Categories: Feminizm

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 Monday, May 05, 2008

Soundgarden Parenting

I'd been humming Black Hole Sun to myself all morning, what can I say?



Our in-house DJ ("Dada") put on the Soundgarden and I can report that by the second verse we had Grampa Brucio singing along to this grunge-era classic. As I was swirling the black marker around and around in the sun and giggling to myself, and later, dancing around the kitchen with Sloane in our hats, I was sure: This is exactly the kind of parent I want to be!

Categories: Ash | Mom-ness

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 Saturday, May 03, 2008

By Her Own Hand

A bit out of date now, this photo is from a month ago. I was at the helm of allowing this to happen, I admit. Turner went a pearly shade of grey when he saw this face:



Dig the painted toes! And yes, these were washable markers.

Categories: Sloane

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