Category Archives: Relationships and Behaviour

Thoughts on what we do and why – men and women, parents and children, friends and strangers.

Car Rentals and Incarnations

Posted on 24 March 2013 by Isabel Gibson

A delayed midnight arrival at Edmonton International is enlivened by a closed car-rental counter; the next day is enlivened by meeting a granddaughter for the first time.     Why are you here? It’s midnight local time, or oh-two-hundred body … Continue reading →

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Whap!!

Posted on 15 January 2012 by Isabel Gibson

Whap!! He flinches and ducks, too late, in that useless but typical reflex after being hit without warning. What the hell? he wonders. Standing in the airplane aisle after the flight, waiting impatiently to be released, he had been worrying … Continue reading →

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Deal With It

Posted on 10 April 2011 by Isabel Gibson

Girls are weird. It’s almost 30 years ago and the speaker is my then 10-year-old son, immediately and predictably seconded by his 7-year-old brother. Yeah, they’re weird. I move quickly, hoping to choke off this line of thinking, not worrying … Continue reading →

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Once is Happenstance

Posted on 13 February 2011 by Isabel Gibson

He’d won. Ignoring the reviews, we’d gone to see the dick flick (exploding helicopters) instead of the chick flick (exploding relationships). It was terrible: he admitted as much, during the credits. But I couldn’t leave it alone.  As we shuffled … Continue reading →

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