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While I grapple with a handful of wedding snags and the stress of planning minutiae, I’m taking consolation today in columns written by other women who share my opinion that marriage and weddings are...
View ArticleBest of Fuller: Some dads just can’t Handel music class
In the greatest musical triumph since his guest appearance as solo trianglist with the local community band, area resident Mac Relluf successfully filled in at his kids’ music class Wednesday evening....
View ArticleThat's What She Said: The Santa Claus conspiracy
Parents could download an app this holiday season to get Santa Claus to castigate their kids for them. For a $1.99, you call a number and Santa Claus will tell your kid to behave or else he’ll put them...
View ArticleDumont: Parents travelling with babies a lot like being a roadie for a heavy...
Three weeks in New Zealand with a seven-month-old baby: what could go wrong? Well, from a quick search on the Internet — everything. For one thing, they don’t carry our brand of baby formula, they have...
View ArticleLarry the photogenic pickerel misses a delicious breakfast
I saw this weekend a riveting drama on television, the kind of drama where your eyes are bonded to the screen like a kid’s tongue to a frozen flagpole. Star of the show was a pickerel. Larry, we called...
View ArticleDumont: Last call, and how to get your guests to leave
I like throwing parties; it gives me a reason to buy fancy things like fruit plates, wine coolers and toilet paper with fluffy kittens on the package. Parties are like bonfires — the food is the wood,...
View ArticleDumont: Give me the days when TV taught morals and dogs solved crimes
Let me put on my cranky pants, with suspenders, as I rant about something that really winds me up. Kids’ shows these days are superficial crap piles that build unreasonable expectations into the minds...
View ArticleFuller: Apartment bees look like one honey of an idea
It was a cool, sunny early spring day and Eliza Carmichael and Ezekiel Benfinster were riding their bicycles home from the farmer’s market. As they passed Buzz, one of their favourite coffee shops, the...
View ArticleThat's What She Said: The thou shalt not pass system
There’s a documentary out called The Pass System which talks about a shady practise that Canada probably would have buried as deep as nuclear waste if it had a chance. Simply put, the Canadian “pass...
View ArticleThat's What She Said: Stages of the Facebook breakup
I’ve observed many breakups over Facebook, and I’ve noted that while each is its own special snowflake, they generally go through the same stages. The first stage is the pre-breakup or complaint stage....
View ArticleThat's What She Said: Life lessons from Game of Thrones
Everything I need to know about life, I have learned from watching Game of Thrones. Spoiler alert: if you haven’t watched the series yet, I’m about to spoil it worse than the spinach in my fridge. For...
View ArticleThat's What She Said: Cleaning Day
I spent two days cleaning my apartment, hoping to get our damage deposit back. My partner was busy moving big things (he claims) so by default the job of cleaning was left to me. I’ve tried to be a...
View ArticleEditorial cartoon for Aug. 19, 2016
Editorial cartoon for Friday, Aug. 19, 2016 (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)
View ArticleThat's What She Said: Baby climbs a mountain
I was listening to a friend pontificate about his upcoming foray into parenthood: “We’re going to stay the same active people. Baby will just come along with us. In one of those bag-thingies.” He was...
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