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I started writing this rant before the new round of pandemic restrictions hit Ontario. Some of the details might no longer be accurate but the feeling remains the same: we’re asking more from our children than we are willing to give ourselves. We are funding our freedom to eat and drink using our kids’ credit. … Continue reading Your Christmas Party was brought to you by…
This is a copy of the Welcome email you will receive if you subscribe to my newsletter. It explains why I switched to this format. You can subscribe by following this link: https://vroniquebergeron.substack.com/p/coming-soon Greetings readers and welcome to this new iteration of Fearless Family Life, Vie de Cirque and whatever else you might have read … Continue reading The Newsletter format: Why?
A post about things I believed The full blog post will be published on my newsletter in the coming days to make sure I capture new sign-ups. In the full post of “A Time for Grief” (available to my newsletter subscribers. Subscribe here.) I wrote: I grieve everything I gave up because I believed in … Continue reading Love & Marriage
Where I write just enough to encourage you to follow my email newsletter. People often ask me how I am doing since the separation and the answer is “still grieving.” I have not lost a beloved to physical death but I lost my family in the shape I have known and built it all my … Continue reading A time for grief
The “Now” page is like an “about” page but instead of telling you something about my background, it tells you what I’m focused on at this point in my life. Since I wrote about my separation in the post Wayfinding a lot of people have reached out to pray for me, lift me up, and … Continue reading Now Now Now May 2021
In which I bury the lead so far, it’s like I hope you’ll miss it. A few years ago my son Colin gave me a framed picture with two pine trees. It was a color picture appearing as in black and white, taken from our dining room window in Middleville. Heavy water-logged snowflakes had left … Continue reading Wayfinding
The late afternoon sun sits just above the awning, pouring a diffuse light into the coffee shop. A large reclaimed wood table marks the centre of the establishment, drawing eclectic elements of design and decoration to itself. A school holiday on the eve of Thanksgiving has forced families into a 4-day weekend, a blessing grown … Continue reading Object writing: Thanksgiving
This post started out as an email to my boss, Glen Gower. Then it got a little too long. Last month news broke with allegations of improper behavior by Councillor Chiarelli. This week, Councillor Chiarelli requested a leave of absence for stress-related illness as victims shared more first-hand testimonies of sexual harassment. For women working on … Continue reading Staffer’s Notebook: We’re not gonna take it. Or we will.
It’s Tuesday morning and we are walking to school down a neighbourhood street, the kind that invites speeding. The street is straight and as wide as a French highway. Every street corner boasts ample sight lines, right into another beautiful, wide, straight, neighbourhood street. These neighbourhood streets are so close to two elementary schools that … Continue reading Sight Lines
Last Fall, after looking unsuccessfully for work for a few months, I deemed it God’s will that writing should be my new job and committed to write a blog post every day to get back in the writing habit. Of course, 3 days later I found work that I enjoy so much it became my … Continue reading Blogging like it’s 2009