I start my day the same way everyday.  Once the kids are fed and well on their way to destroying the house for the day I make a pot of coffee, open up my laptop, and I start reading the news of the day, I empty out my email box, and I “tweet” something incredibly boring about things that don’t really matter.

It was on twitter that I heard about the announcement Hockey Canada was preparing to make – the new jersey design.  It was also on twitter where I read that there was some type of backlash against the new Team Canada Hockey Jersey logo design.   The logo, designed by Musqueam artist Debra Sparrow, with help from Nike, is the standard maple leaf but does feature some iconography (a Thunderbird, an Eagle, among other animals that us Neechies adore) that …

straight up – if you’re dog is off his/her leash at a park, and it comes running at my kids – it fucking dies.

i like animals. i grew up with dogs. but if you’re a pet owner you have a responsibility to train and control your pet in public. last night, i took my kids to the park near our house. we were playing a pretty serious soccer match (i was winning 4-0) when all of the sudden a fair sized mutt came running around the fence and went straight for the soccer ball. in full stride that little fucker turned his attention from the ball to my 3 year old. i was quite a few steps away yet and the dog got to her before i did. he knocked her down and jumped …