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		<title>Grown-up home schooler tells her story in Vancouver March 30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like an increasing number of people &#8211; like me &#8211; are taking an alternative approach to their kids&#8217; education. My son was so unhappy in regular school that I pulled him out in Grade 3 and started in the SelfDesign program. 
Other families start off right away with home schooling or &#8220;unschooling&#8221; &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/03/11/1281/</link>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday</title>
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Check out other Wordless Wednesday pics.
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		<link>http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/03/10/wordless-wednesday-5/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your favourite podcast?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I need good things to listen to while I ride away the stress of life on my exercise bike.
Today I listened to This American Life, recommended by one of my Facebook friends. This week was Scenes from a Recession &#8211; and I quote the prologue from the website: 
&#8220;Host Ira Glass notes the sub-industry in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/03/09/whats-your-favourite-podcast/</link>
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		<title>Quake-proofing the old schoolhouse</title>
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The staff and students of this East Vancouver school are working in portables in the field. Construction trailers line the street. Police and parents are monitoring traffic and there is a &#8220;walking school bus&#8221; program for families to drop their kids at a nearby high school.
This is one of eight seismic upgrade projects now underway [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/03/08/quake-proofing-the-old-schoolhouse/</link>
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		<title>How to cheer up on a rainy Vancouver Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s impossible. Don&#8217;t bother trying. 
Haha. Just kidding. You could always go for a rainwalk, as writer kc dyer called it today on Twitter. She took a rainwalk with her dogs and I did one with my son. We carried my big umbrella (a doorprize!) and rainwalked to our favourite cafe, then to the grocery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/03/07/how-to-cheer-up-on-a-rainy-vancouver-sunday/</link>
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		<title>Cool cake art attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Underneath all this colourful pizazz is a chocolate cake requested by a three-year-old birthday boy who loves guitars. 
It was made by Jen, mom of my son&#8217;s younger brother and sister. For the past few years, she&#8217;s had so much fun with these cakes that she&#8217;s thinking of making and selling them. 
The wee birthday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/03/06/cool-cake-art-attack/</link>
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		<title>Following our favorite toy store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Scott never fails me when I need a gift idea. During the past several years, I&#8217;ve probably spent many hours chatting with him in the toy store about kids&#8217; gifts and all kinds of random topics. 
Andrew works at It&#8217;s All Fun &#038; Games &#8211; a beloved toy store in my neighbourhood &#8211; which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/03/05/following-our-favorite-toy-store/</link>
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		<title>Photography for kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Thats&#8217;s so random!&#8221; 
I never know what I&#8217;ll see on my iPhone camera after my son&#8217;s been using it. Yesterday I found this super-cool drawing  on it after our trip to JJ Bean. He&#8217;s also taken some interesting shots of the painting on the south wall of Continental Cafe (which is worth a look-see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/03/04/photography-for-kids/</link>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday</title>
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		<link>http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/03/03/wordless-wednesday-4/</link>
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		<title>Poster by Vancouver design student shows the person behind &#8220;the homeless guy&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Mar. 7, 2010 &#8211; Due to concerns re: permission to use Jeff&#8217;s image for this poster, Jesi asked me to remove the image. A redesign is in the works&#8230;
Emily Carr design student Jesi Carson had a school project to create a poster commenting on an issue facing Vancouver. She emailed me last week to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/03/02/poster-by-vancouver-design-student-shows-the-person-behind-the-homeless-guy/</link>
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