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Category: Nostalgiapalooza

Ah, back in the day.

Dilovely’s 90s Coming-of-Age Playlist: The Canadian Edition

Posted on 29 August, 20236 September, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

Well, you’ve either been waiting on tenterhooks or perhaps completely forgotten about it… but here is the Canadian Edition of Dilovely’s 90s Coming-of-Age Playlist(s)! My top thirty. The kind of blog post that seems manageable-ish even at the end of a whirlwind summer where the news cycle was devastating every single effing day. SONGS, people. Put your…

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To my firstborn son, on your graduation from childhood (i.e. Grade 8)

Posted on 26 June, 202326 June, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

Dear E, You’ve made it! Today (right now, in fact) you are celebrating your Grade 8 graduation, and I really want to say a few words. I write to you in my head with every birthday and milestone, but there are not very many birthday blog posts from recent years. (Sigh… you know how June…

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To My Firstborn, Age 12

Posted on 30 June, 20211 July, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

Dear E, You’ve now been twelve for three weeks. It has been a long time since I managed to post about you for your birthday, because funnily enough, it always falls at the busiest time of year. I am determined to write – and finish – this post, so that someday (if you ever read…

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Blog Archives – Gratitude Day 14

Posted on 14 November, 202015 November, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

Tonight, I am grateful for this blog. Sometimes, after I’ve written a post, I reread an old blog post or several. The other day, I read about something my son said as a toddler that made me spit out my beverage with laughter – something I never would have remembered if I hadn’t written it…

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Homeschooling Perspective from a Former Homeschooler

Posted on 10 April, 202011 April, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

Lots of parents across the world have been trying their hand at homeschooling these past weeks, thanks to Covid-19. It looks different for everyone, of course, since everyone’s circumstances are different. It might look like my brilliant and overachieving colleague who expressed “glee” at finally getting to use her pedagogy on her own kids, or…

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To My Firstborn On His 10th Birthday

Posted on 6 June, 201910 July, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

Dear E, It’s Thursday night, June 6th, 2019. Tonight marks a whole decade since I went to the hospital to have the first procedure of my induction, because you were already 9 days late. You were born two days later, utterly uprooting and replanting our lives with your arrival. This evening, you and I took…

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To My Firstborn on his 10th Birthday

Posted on 6 June, 201910 July, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

Dear E, It’s Thursday night, June 6th, 2019. Tonight marks a whole decade since I went to the hospital to have the first procedure of my induction, because you were already 9 days late. You were born two days later, utterly uprooting and replanting our lives with your arrival. This evening, you and I took…

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To My Firstborn On His 10th Birthday

Posted on 6 June, 201910 July, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

Dear E, It’s Thursday night, June 6th, 2019. Tonight marks a whole decade since I went to the hospital to have the first procedure of my induction, because you were already 9 days late. You were born two days later, utterly uprooting and replanting our lives with your arrival. This evening, you and I took…

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Sing In the New Year

Posted on 2 January, 201917 January, 2019 by dilovelyadmin

Happy New Year, lovelies! It has been an emotional New Year’s for us this year. Many mixed feelings, and lots of gratitude in spite of everything. Here is another example of Dilovely’s infinite nerdiness, in the form of rounds. Some call them canons; like Row, Row, Row Your Boat, one person starts the song and…

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Dear Students on Social Media: How Do You Manage?

Posted on 26 February, 201813 March, 2019 by dilovelyadmin

Hello, young folk. If you are a student in high school or university, have a smartphone with one or more social media accounts, and are passing your courses, then let me say: my hat is off to you. If you are excelling, then I am fully impressed. Here’s why. I am kinda old. Specifically, I’m…

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