Mother is coming
Helping my son learn to walk. PHOTO: Stu Clark Learning to climb with my son. PHOTO: Chris Clark...
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Overloaded by motherhood
It’s a comedy about the darkness of parenthood.That’s how Emelia Symington Fedy describes Motherload, the collectively-created play she and three castmates are bringing to the Yukon Arts Centre’s mainstage on October 13.Fedy...
Read MoreHealthy crying and how to do it
Children sometimes will look not grieving at all, then they’re in it all at once,” said Deb Higgins, with Hospice Yukon.
Read MoreChallenging Our ideas
When I meet someone new, I am used to being asked what I do for a living. The answer to that question inevitably leads to deeper discussions about the issue of violence against women.A few months ago I had conversation that sat...
Read MoreLife is Tough with The Little Nag
My dinner dishes don’t always get done after dinner.There is a chair in my living room that has a continuous pile of laundry to be folded.Sometimes I forget the kid’s helmet, or swimsuit, or permission slip for school.The dogs...
Read MoreBirth of a Family: Christine’s story
“I would have loved to have had midwifery care and a home birth for all my pregnancies, but that wasn’t possible,” says Christine, a Whitehorse resident.When she was pregnant with her first baby and two months away from her due...
Read MoreSummer Lessons in Hippo Munching
What a happy day it was when my four-year-old daughter Emily opened a gift from my wife and I revealing a classic game from our youth. Hungry Hungry Hippos was one of our “go to” games in the mid-80s.I remember battling it out...
Read MoreYou Are What You Wrote When You Were a Child
Ten years ago husband and wife Dan and Jenna Misener were at Jenna’s parents’ house for Christmas. The couple was in Jenna’s room, going through a box of childhood memorabilia. They found her diary. They spent...
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