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Karen Eva

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…

6 min readNov 25, 2020

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So Long, Toronto

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Karen Eva

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…

6 min readApr 13, 2020

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Grocery Shopping During The Pandemic

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Karen Eva

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…

7 min readMar 27, 2020

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When I Was A Bookseller.

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Karen Eva

Winter

A long, cold season

7 min readFeb 27, 2020

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Winter

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Karen Eva

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…

5 min readFeb 3, 2020

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

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Karen Eva

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…

7 min readJan 20, 2020

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There Are No Gap Years for Grown-Ups

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Karen Eva

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

(And also, you have things to do)

5 min readJan 11, 2020

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

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Karen Eva
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The Baby Test

6 + 4

Max Is Six

9 min readNov 11, 2019

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6 + 4

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Karen Eva

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…

8 min readJun 11, 2018

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So Long, Cape Town

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The Baby Test

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

Max is Four

6 min readOct 27, 2017

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

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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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