You can complain about the weather, but few things are more unpredictable than a 6-year-old girl. My daughter Cassandra has earned the nickname “Hurricane Cassie” around our home, both for her passionate mood swings, and for her habit of upending the living room to build increasingly elaborate furniture forts. Last year, Cassie and i made [...] Keep Reading

Social networks come and go, proving themselves useful (or not) in various areas of our lives. i know i can count on Facebook to tell me all about what that girl i knew in sixth grade is knitting for her newborn. Twitter is where i can crack wise to three thousand people i met at [...] Keep Reading

In the TEDx Toronto talk that i delivered with Cassie yesterday, i took a shot at school boards’ use of ancient educational software, which many teachers use to placate their students while they catch up on marking and class prep. Note to schools: math hasn’t changed, but graphics, sound, teaching methods and children all have. [...] Keep Reading

Computers are hard. Right, ladies? Math, too. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves … the female brain can really only handle thinking about one thing at a time. My 6-year-old daughter Cassandra an i are doing a TEDx Toronto talk at the end of the week. While trying to source an image of a [...] Keep Reading

PROVISO: IANAAL (i am not an anal lawyer), this post does not constitute a legal opinion, and it pertains to mushy rules laid out by the Ontario Ministry of Labour; your level of confusion with the mushy rules expressed in your own state or province may vary. Do You Hear the People Sting? Sometimes the [...] Keep Reading