"Adventures With Diapers" (2000)

Wa-a-a-y back on January 16, 2000 another piece I wrote for the Vancouver Province appeared in the "You've Got Kids!" section of the paper. The last column I wrote was about sleep deprivation; this one's about diapers.

Changing diapers goes hand in glove -- you'll wish you had gloves! -- with having kids and this recounts some of the "joys" and challenges of diaper changing. While I'm sure my 13-year old son appreciates reading about himself in this piece, it can't be said that my diaper-changing days are behind me. My youngest is just a little more than a year old so in all likelihood I have another year (maybe) of diaper changes. That's when we switch to changing bed sheets on a regular basis and thanking Science for plastic undersheets.

Headline kind of says it all...

"Raging goat holds woman captive" 

Full text can be found at The Province:

"I tried to shoo the goat away with the snow shovel but it just made it really mad," said Giuliani. 

"He came up the stairs and was jumping all over the barbecue and head-butting the door trying to get in." 

Giuliani lobbed a couple of empty Corona beer bottles at the marauding goat to scare it away, without much success. 

She called animal control, but they were closed for the day, so she called police with the plea: "I'm being held hostage in my house by my neighbour's goat.'"