Kim Bosch

New York Times • 12th September 2020

How to Tell if Distance Learning Is Working for Your Kid

Understanding the expected outcomes for your child’s grade can be helpful in a couple ways. First, it allows you to relax a bit knowing that your school has a focused plan for your child’s development. It also gives you a checklist by which to measure your child’s success. By understanding the learning expectations, parents gain a sense of organization and control over an otherwise uncontrollable situation. Once you understand what your kid is expected to learn, you’ll be able to better engage

Jezebel • 14th December 2018

In Gemma Hartley's Fed Up, Emotional Labor Is Everything and Nothing

In 2014, on the 25th anniversary of her 1984 book The Second Shift, sociologist Arlie Hochschild was asked if we had made progress on the “double burden”—labor done both in the home and in the workplace—experienced by a growing number of women joining the workforce in the 1980s. Hochschild expressed that we had moved into a second “stalled revolution.” Yes, women had gained entrance to employment outside of the home, and “men [had] changed substantially” in their role within household labor,

Chicago magazine • 22nd January 2020

How a Town in Quebec Got the Nickname “Little Chicago”

There’s a compulsion among even Canada’s most exciting cities to link themselves to Chicago. Obama once said that Toronto reminds him of Chicago, and now the city to the north won’t let anyone forget it. Montreal, meanwhile, tethers itself to Chicago jazz with the twine of Oscar Peterson, who recorded four albums at the legendary London House. But in between these two metropolises sits the only Canadian town to earn the moniker “Le Petit Chicago.” Historic Hull is a mid-sized city in Canada’s

GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine • 12th November 2015

Things We Eat Alone

"It starts with butter—a solid chunk, roughly a large tablespoon in size and easily retrieved from the door of the fridge. It is melted in a small bowl in the microwave on high heat for forty seconds. Next comes the sugar." Artwork by Melanie Lambrick

The Globe and Mail • 7th November 2007

Indoor Shoes

Every year, at the beginning of the bad-weather season, I was sent home with the same note printed on a half sheet of neon-pink paper. It read: "As of November 1st, your son/daughter is required to have one pair of indoor running shoes in addition to their regular outdoor footwear..."

The National Post • 1st February 2009

Vaguebooking

Vaguebooking's core concept lies within the status writer's ability to bait its readers while still remaining elusive. It is always confessional, provocative, and indeterminably sly.

EYE Weekly • 14th May 2008

Queen West Patio Guide

The middle child — between fashionista older sister Queen West and undisciplined younger brother Parkdale — West Queen West mostly just wants to chill out and draw in her sketchbook.

EYE Weekly • 4th June 2008

On Disc: Alanis Morissette

No one does empowering break-up music like Morissette, and with her own split from actor Ryan Reynolds still fresh, she’s got plenty to dish about.

EYE Weekly • 11th June 2008

On Disc: N.E.R.D.

After watching a documentary on synesthesia, the neurological condition where one of the senses is triggered by stimulus of another sense (i.e., hearing colours), Neptunes Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, along with buddy Shay Haley, were inspired to create their own version of the neurological phenomenon.

Apartment 613 • 19th March 2011

I was Framed! Best Eyewear Stores in Town

Squinting to see spring, but still too creeped out to have your cornea lasered? Ottawa has a few great independent eyeglass stores to frame up your peepers in style.

EYE Weekly • 14th May 2008

Bloor West Patio Guide

Babies don’t drink, but that doesn’t mean this family-friendly neighbourhood is devoid of places to get the sauce.

Apartment 613 • 12th February 2011

How do you spell “titillating”?

Let me start by saying that I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself an exhibitionist. When I heard the Honeysuckle Strip Spelling Bee was making its debut in Ottawa on the weekend, however, I eagerly wanted to be a part of smashing the sexless sweatpant-wearing image some might equate with our fine city.

Apartment 613 • 17th February 2011

Stone Soup: Real Soup made with Real Stuff

It’s freezing. You’re starving. The wind is blasting you from all angles like an actress in a cosmetics commercial. The skate home on the canal you were so looking forward to earlier in the day has now slapped you into exhaustion. In moments like this a (albeit delicious) Queues de Castor won’t give you the energy you need to make it to Dow’s Lake. There is a rumble in your tummy that cannot be smothered into silence with cinnamon encrusted dough.

Apartment 613 • 6th April 2011

Dust on the Throttle: Crazy Ladies take on the Mongol Rally

The Mongol Rally: a 10,000 mile drive from central UK to Ulan Bator, Mongolia. This ain’t no jaunty ride along the trans-Canadian highway. The journey (whichever way you choose to undertake it) tackles some of the most massive mountains, desolate deserts and heinous “roads” in the world. Which might leave you asking: What kind of nut-jobs would participate in such a thing?

Apartment 613 • 11th April 2011

Searching for treasures with $5.55, a quid and a bobby pin at the 4th Ottawa Community Record Show

I’ve never been to the Community Record Show, so – as a huge lover of the big black CD – when the semi-annual event rolled around last Sunday I jumped on board. The only problem? I was super-broke. Even after I cleaned out all the silver from my politically-punny coin jar (it reads “CHANGE! Yes we CAN!”), checked my couch cushions and scraped every pocket of every single one of my jackets, my sum total came to a meager $5.55 plus one British pound. I also found a bobby pin that I decided to keep just in case.

EYE Weekly • 21st May 2008

Concert Review: The Cure - May 19

The fans came in every size and shape — from fishnet-wearing teens hearing The Cure live for the first time, to balding men sporting “Picture Tour ’81” t-shirts — and none were disappointed.

EYE Weekly • 11th June 2008

On Disc: Ivana Santilli

If Tony is Santilli’s “love song to old-school pop songwriting,” the old school should issue a restraining order. Her lyrics, rather than evoking the playfulness of ’70s and ’80s pop, are lazy.

Ottawa Fringe Festival • 13th July 2011

REVIEW: The Last Gig of Lenny Brau

Canadian guitar legend Lenny Breau is without a doubt an intriguing subject for a musical. However, if you’ve never heard of Breau before, don’t come looking for biography; this a musical roundabout, one that leaves questions dangling but ears satisfied.

EYE Weekly • 3rd July 2008

REVIEW: Toronto Fringe Festival

Ottawa Fringe Festival • 20th July 2011

REVIEW: My Mother's Daughter

Who am I and why? It’s a simple question, right? Riiiiight. And yet, it’s a question that 'My Mother’s Daughter', in its short 40-minute duration, explores with eagerness.