17 Sep, 2008
Posted by: andrea tomkins In: - Ottawa for kids|- Westboro|Oh! Things!|Photography
I can’t stop staring at our new painting. I love it so much. I have to provide some back story. The girls and I visited my mother on my birthday back in August. (Hi mom!) We had birthday cake, and she gave me a gift. It was smallish, long and narrow. I tore the paper off […]
22 Oct, 2007
Posted by: andrea tomkins In: - Ottawa for kids|Easy ways to make kids happy|Ottawa
It’s been busy around these parts. I feel like I need to rekindle my relationship with my own home. We just haven’t been around, like, at all. But first, would ya look at these two girls: Those were taken at the park behind the Parkdale Market, where we bought dried corn cobs, multicoloured organic carrots (deeelish!), […]
27 Mar, 2007
Posted by: andrea tomkins In: Easy ways to make kids happy|Ottawa
I don’t mean to go all hoity-hoity on you, but I like Things of Culture: film, art, music, literature, the theatre. It’s important to me that our kids become culturally well-rounded individuals. I don’t want to raise a couple of doobs who think Survivor is the best thing on television, that all movies should star […]
My name is Andrea and I live in Ottawa with my husband Mark and our dog Sunny who is kind of a big deal on Instagram. During the day I work as a freelance writer. I am a longtime Ottawa blogger and I've occupied this little corner of the WWW since 1999. The Fishbowl is my whiteboard, water cooler, and journal, all rolled into one. I'm passionate about healthy living, arts and culture, travel, great gear, good food, and sharing the best of Ottawa. I also love vegetables, photography, gadgets, and great design.
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