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Our last trip of the summer was a 50km bike ride through the wineries of Niagara-on-the-Lake. We started off with 10 enthusiastic bikers, but over the course of two days people dropped like flies. We battled heat stroke, down pours, and air conditioning. By the end of the trip there were only 4 remaining souls [...]

I can’t remember the last time I went to the zoo. When we were kids we used to go all the time. All of us would pile into my dad’s red station wagon and head off to the zoo; by the end of the day we would all be tired and smelly from having spent [...]

Sometimes you just need to take a walk to clear your mind. Read more after the jump. Best described as “A sunny, slapstick silent comedy” by The New York Times, Rosie’s Walk, written and illustrated by Pat Hutchins is a story about Rosie the hen, who went for a walk blissfully unaware of the fox trailing [...]

You know that feeling you get when you are riding a roller coaster? Fear and excitement rolled together! Screaming for your life in terror, and so excited you want to hurl! That pretty much sums up how I feel about my upcoming camping trip. I agreed to spend three days in the woods before finding [...]

S-N-A-K-E, just saying the word makes my skin crawl. When I was 6, I rushed home from Sunday school with a full bladder. Making a mad dash to the bathroom I was just about to sit down when out of the corner of my eye I spotted something slithering in the tub. My grandfather went [...]

Last week was Binky’s birthday; he turned 6. There was cake, party hats and balloons. Like all cats he wasn’t impressed by all the party fuss, but he did enjoy spending the evening with friends and getting his belly rubbed. Read more after the jump. I thought we could continue the celebration with You Can’t Take [...]

Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Read more after the jump. Portrayed as big and scary, wolves are known to have cravings for girls in red capes, grandmas and little pigs. There is an unfair representation of wolves in children’s books, a gross amount of stereotyping. Like us, wolves have friends and family (wolves are [...]

There is an elementary school nearby and the playground is filled with snowballs, sitting by idly, just waiting for someone to do something with them. It’s kind of eerie when you walk by at night, because they look like disembodied snowmen. Read more after the jump. When I saw those snowballs, I was reminded of The [...]

Keep reading if you’re looking for a real nail-biting kind of page-turner… Read more after the jump. Based on the television series Sesame Street, The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover is written by Jon Stone and illustrated by Michael Smollin. Grover is horrified to learn that there is a [...]

Happy Halloween! Read more after the jump. I’ve got something deliciously wicked in mind for Halloween. How to Cook Children: A Grisly Recipe Book, written by Martin Howard and illustrated Colin Stimpson, is guaranteed to make you pee in your pants laughing (otherwise known as “lizzing” by 30 Rock fans). Children are the main ingredient in this [...]

First day of school was always nerve-wracking. I would worry. A lot. I would spend sleepless nights coming up with different scenarios of how things could go wrong and not making friends was at the top of my list. What if I had nobody to eat lunch with? What if I was the odd one [...]

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My dad is weird. Besides claiming to be from Mars, my dad has a freezer full of dead goldfishes. Okay, “full” might be an exaggeration; there’s maybe half a dozen or so. My dad stopped raising goldfish after they all died. Instead of flushing them down the toilet or throwing them out with the trash, [...]

(Insert awkward giggling.) I’m sure you’re not anxious to hear my p_ _ p stories. (Is anyone else feeling flushed?). What?!? Everyone does it. (Insert more awkward giggling.) Read more after the jump. Critics can be harsh. A book review can say a lot about the reviewer’s personality, beliefs, generation, cultural and social values. On the [...]

Last summer while my mother was away on vacation, my dad went out and got a dog. In case you were wondering, nope – there was no prior family meeting or discussion (a.k.a. asking my mom for permission). You should have seen the look on my mother’s face when we picked her up from the [...]

Chicken wings, sausages, salami and RIBS are a few of my favorite things, which is a major offense for a vegetarian. Three years ago, I had it in my head that it would be a brilliant idea for a vegetarian to attend rib feast, which is exactly like it sounds like – all-you-can-eat ribs from [...]

When I was in junior high, I had a mean old bat for an art teacher. Let us call her Old Bat for short, in order to protect the not-so-innocent. Whenever she got angry, her voice would screech like nails on a chalkboard, and no matter what the weather was like outside, she would inevitably [...]