The Little Paper

Once again, this December, The Little Paper has offered local business owners the opportunity to tell you about their products and services in our regular Celebrate the Street feature. While this is in no way a comprehensive list, it is an excellent round up of neighbourhood businesses that deserve your support this season. And it’s a great place to get started exploring and supporting the little cities within our vast metropolis.

I am slowly accepting the fact that I am one opinionated little mother. This will come as no surprise to my friends and family. Even less of one to the women I work with. But for me, it’s been a slow enlightening. And one I’m just learning to embrace. As much as parenthood opens us up to spontaneity and to the fundamental unpredictability of the universe, it also tends to clarify and firm up our beliefs. So in honour of this Mothers’ Day, here’s my shortlist...

At a time of year we associate with wonder and surprise, it seems appropriate that The Little Paper is celebrating its fifth anniversary. I find it hard to believe that this little experiment in independent publishing can have survived and grown and become a part of the daily lives of so many Toronto parents. Our quality and tenacity and growth is entirely in our people. Over the last 60 issues, The Little Paper has evolved from lone woman with an ambitious idea to a diverse and dedicated team of mothers who must rank among the smartest, most efficient and kindest women in the city (oh, and Reed too!). It just makes sense that such an amazing group of moms put together a paper that resonates for parents.

I like November. I like how it sits in between the onset of autumn and the mad rush of the holidays. I like umbrellas and puddles and bare-limbed black branches.