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
“It’s like they are puddle-jumping. One moment they’re fully immersed and the next they’re fully out of it.” – Deb Higgins, Communications Coordinator Hospice YukonEveryone handles their grief differently. That is one of...
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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