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So Long, Toronto

So long, Torontans. Goodbye to your hey-how-are-yas, to your many shapes and sizes and colours and accents, to your excellent nails, teeth…

Nov 25, 2020

So Long, Toronto

Nov 25, 2020

Grocery Shopping During The Pandemic

When we first arrived in Canada, I would sometimes cry when I went to the grocery store. A variety of of things would set me off. I tried…

Apr 13, 2020

Grocery Shopping During The Pandemic

Apr 13, 2020

When I Was A Bookseller.

About half a lifetime ago I became, for a few years, a bookseller. One January, when I was 20 years old, I returned from a brief working…

Mar 27, 2020

When I Was A Bookseller.

Mar 27, 2020

Winter

A long, cold season

Feb 27, 2020

Winter

Feb 27, 2020

Of All The Things I’ll Miss About Toronto, I’ll Miss The Streetcars The Most

As the possibility that we will soon be leaving Toronto becomes more real, I’ve started to think a lot about the things I’ll miss. Anybody…

Feb 3, 2020

Of All The Things I’ll Miss About Toronto, I’ll Miss The Streetcars The Most

Feb 3, 2020

There Are No Gap Years for Grown-Ups

I never took a gap year. After high school, my friends left for gap years in droves, but I did not. I guess I wasn’t a very independent…

Jan 20, 2020

There Are No Gap Years for Grown-Ups

Jan 20, 2020

Games to play with your kids when you Just Can’t Anymore with the toy trains

(And also, you have things to do)

Jan 11, 2020

Games to play with your kids when you Just Can’t Anymore with the toy trains

Jan 11, 2020

Published in
The Baby Test

6 + 4

Max Is Six

Nov 11, 2019

6 + 4

Nov 11, 2019

So Long, Cape Town

It struck me a while ago that I knew absolutely nothing about Cape Town before I moved here. I’d come here for the weekend once or twice…

Jun 11, 2018

So Long, Cape Town

Jun 11, 2018

Published in
The Baby Test

The Wild Rumpus: Four-and-a-bit years in

Max is Four

Oct 27, 2017

The Wild Rumpus: Four-and-a-bit years in

Oct 27, 2017

Karen Eva

Karen Eva

State doctor, mom-in-training. Bad runner. Fiction reader. Occasional cook. I mostly write about parenting, doctoring, the intersection of these.

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