Jam Gen Pets: The Life of Riley

(As dictated to Marina) My name isn’t actually Riley, but it might as well be. After all, I live the… Read more Jam Gen Pets: The Life of Riley

Jam Gen Travel: Why I Miss It

I knew it was going to be a bad week. Then Facebook made it worse. Every winter for the past… Read more Jam Gen Travel: Why I Miss It

Confession time: I’m not a trendy person. I don’t stand in line for hours, let alone days, to get the… Read more Jam Gen Love: Living Apart Together

Even in the good years, getting through a trip around the sun can feel like a Herculean effort. Each lunar… Read more Jam Gen Calendar: A Guided Tour Around the Sun

I look at my mother sitting across from me in her wheelchair, a wheeled hospital-style overbed table situated between us.… Read more Jam Gen Health: A Visit with My Mother

In December 2008, my husband, sons (then aged five and two) and I travelled to my childhood home in St.… Read more Jam Gen Parenting: A Very Canadian Story

Lights. Camera. Action! My sister and I knew the drill by now: come home from the Christmas Eve service, take… Read more Jam Gen Family: Memories of Christmases Past

No doubt about it – 2020 has been a crappy year. Hope I haven’t offended anyone with that blunt assessment.… Read more Jam Gen’s 2020 Gift Guide for the Holidays

I knew Santa’s days were numbered when Son #1, then age eight, told me that there was a “real” Santa… Read more Jam Gen Ethics: The Ambiguity of Lying

“You remember what we talked about the other night? My friend … walking … grass … told his dad? And… Read more Jam Gen Ageing: What’s That You Say?