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World Tour Planning 101: Who Needs a Map When There's Malbec?

Seriously? You’re ordering spring rolls? That’s your research plan for Asia?

My New Zealand travel planning isn't much better; I rented the TV show Flight of the Conchords. (I think Brett and Jemaine are giving me a pretty good sense of what Kiwis are like.) I also picked up a couple of bottles of New Zealand malbec.

Meanwhile, Rob, has been feverishly booking flights, accommodations, hikes, camping, car rentals and activities all over New Zealand — the first leg of our family's year-long trek around the world.

Daria SalamonSeptember 24, 2014 Comments

The First Day

You wore your brother’s underwear all summer. Kindergarten starts tomorrow and suddenly you insist on wearing those pink panties in the back of your drawer, the ones with the Hello Kitties stamped on the ass.

Daria SalamonSeptember 1, 2014 Comment

I Googled My Ex Boyfriend and FORBES Popped Up

A month ago I posted about finding a diary from when I was 12 years old and I subjected myself to reading endless entries about my love for my boyfriend at the time, Kirk McManus.

I Googled him to see what he was up to. (Dr. Kirk McManus does cancer research at an Institute for Cell Biology.) He was probably a keeper.

Daria SalamonJuly 10, 2014Comment

A Year of Vagabonding! With Kids? Are We Insane?

For a while now I’ve felt itchy and tethered. As Steve Jobs would say, I need to change something.

So, the vagabond and adventurer that’s been trapped inside of me is being released!

We’re pulling the kids out of school and we’re going to wandering around the world for a year.

Daria SalamonJune 19, 2014 Comments

We Totally Suck At Organized Activities

I signed my son up for swimming lessons so that he could start earning those leveled badges that say you can swim (even though, like most kids, Oskar can already hold his own in the deep end of a pool).

As all the other kids were off showing the instructor that they could swim 10 meters in a straight line, Oskar’s eyes were closed, his head bobbed up and down and he performed a 2-minute long drum solo on his flutter board. This, unfortunately, was not one of the skills the Level 2 instructor was testing.

humour, kids & familyDaria SalamonMay 16, 2014Comment

I was once asked to leave the Home Depot

Daria SalamonMay 7, 2014 Comment

Elsa & Luke Skywalker: 10 Reasons Why They Should Date

I have a four-year-old girl who is Frozen and Elsa-crazy. I’ve seen this movie reenacted so many times that we break out into song and dance in the produce section at the grocery story. Let it go, let it go! Can’t hold it back anymore.

Daria SalamonMay 4, 2014Comment

A Girl, Her Baba and Their Eggs

This is a story about Easter. This is a story about making pysanka with my Baba. It was also one of my first published essays as a writer. (Notice the distinct lack of colourful language and f-bombs.)

Daria SalamonApril 17, 2014Comment

37 Notebooks Filled Since I was Twelve in 1984

I was rummaging around in my old bedroom at my parents’ house when I stumbled across the very first diary I kept when I was 12 year old.

Daria SalamonApril 11, 2014 Comment

Signs of Spring in Winnipeg

Daria SalamonMarch 18, 2014 Comment

What Advice Would You Give Your 17 Year Old Self?

If you had the chance to talk to yourself when you were 17, what would you say?

I had an opportunity that was as close to that as I might ever get.

General, Writing , humourDaria SalamonMarch 6, 2014 Comments

Shit I Found In My Purse.

I was sitting in a long, boring, bank meeting today that didn’t require much input on my part, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to go through my purse and clean it out, maybe get to the bottom of the strange odour.

I was so bored, in fact, that I decided to photo-document some of the things that I found – much to the horror of Sherry, the banker running the meeting.

Daria SalamonFebruary 26, 2014 Comment

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