Today's article to share with children:

Our monuments, statues and memorials give form to honouring, grieving lives lost in war – connections to history, place, and the ways in which we honour our past, including some lesser-known Manitoba war memorials.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Today's free news article for kids!

Some ideas for conversations or lessons:
-What's a "Hall of fame"?
-What are some other ways and places we preserve and share our history? Why do we do this?
-If you had a personal toy hall of fame, what would be in it?

www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Today's free article to share with young kids and students:

Puppy Sphere yoga chain rolls out ‘mood-boosting’ first classes in Winnipeg

www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/202...

Today's News for Kids, from the Winnipeg Free Press:
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

I am overjoyed to finally be able to say that this is the project I'm leading! Pick up a Free Press to read the rest of the article!

Prayers for all the elementary school teachers in Winnipeg. Theres a whooooole lotta kids not getting to bed on time tonight (including mine).

People with children: the Free Press wants to see your child’s original Super Hero!

Mail to Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Wpg, Man., R2X 3B6, Attn: Ben Waldman, or email [email protected] for a chance to appear in the paper. Include a brief superhero biography/origin story."

Feels like some real nice neighbours moved out and the people who bought the place are real jerks.

I introduced the kitten to the bird today. We were able to keep them separated for 1 month. Verdict: they are both mortally terrified of one another. I see this as a win.

I’m learning html. I’m old old old, and it’s way too much like learning DOS in high school.

just totted up all the substacks I pay for and found myself thinking ‘wow wouldn’t it be better if all these writers were in one place and I could just pay a flat fee’ so anyway that’s how today I invented the concept of the ‘newspaper’

I love Red River College so much that if it were a boy, he'd be totally weirded out.

We’re a little pressed for time between dinner and activities tonight, so I’m making some chicken nuggets for kids to eat in the car. Fine. But when they asked me what’s for dinner I replied, in my distracted state, “Road nuggets”. Rather less appealing.

"The phone calls and newspaper clippings, the attempts to understand one another, emails sent days and weeks after publication: the pebbles we carry and drop for others to find."

My latest in @winnipegfreepress.com
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/2024...

Imposter syndrome, columnist edition:

Me: Ugh, column for tomorrow is terrible.
Husband: Let me read it
Me: It's awful. Feels like I have no idea how to do this.
Husband: (reads column) So...it's literally about how you know how to do this, while showing how well you can do this.
Me: LIES! LIES!

One more Winnipegger has arrived!