Jam Gen Health: A Visit with My Mother

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

Jam Gen Parenting: A Very Canadian Story

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?

I realize the fact that I don’t like Halloween will be heresy to those who are fervent fans of this… Read more Jam Gen Parenting: Halloween Was Rarely a Treat

So you’ve seen the kids (or grandkids) off to school after the longest summer break in recent memory. Finally!! How’s… Read more Jam Gen Health: More COVID Realizations

For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful. Amen. My sons half recite, half… Read more Jam Gen Parenting: The Gift of Gratitude

Hear that noise? No? Me neither. It’s 9:30 in the morning on the first day of school. That sound? Dead… Read more Jam Gen Parenting: Back to School