impudent strumpet

On the morning of Monday, April 23, one of the news stories on the radio was that the students of Virginia Tech were returning to class. Ap...

When I'm reading science fiction or fantasy or historical fiction, the one thing I really enjoy is just immersing myself in the peaceful...

Fitted sheets are not rectangular, but all the ways I can find to fold them are based on trying to force them to act like rectangles. Someo...

Remember in March 2003, when the US first started invading Iraq and you could turn on the TV and "watch war"? Remember how they w...

Sure, everyone wants to earn a living - but it turns out that with age comes a realization for many that status and money are not as importa...

The Globe and Mail proposes that people living alone are "an environmental time bomb." This seemed off to me, so I calculated my e...

Is Wilhelmina aware that Claire owns Mode, not Bradford? If not, why hasn't anyone told her? If so, why is she sleeping with Bradford?

I'm just posting this because I can finally articulate something I wish I'd been able to explain earlier. Many of the homeowners in ...

Doesn't this make it look like Boris Yeltsin is the TTC worker who was killed?

I've long been an advocate of taking the subway down to Bloor rather than using a bus to cross between the Yonge and U-S lines. But don...

Apparently if you subscribe to the Toronto Star and you don't get a newspaper and you report this and ask them to credit your account, t...

You paid attention during 100% of high school! 85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that...

Just before I moved, I finished a book of short stories. I wanted to blog about it because I'm really trying to get back in the habit o...

If you're photographing a puppy (or anything else that's cute because it's small), pose it with some everyday object so people c...

The moving company I ended up hiring was Emerald Movers & Storage, and I was quite happy with their work. The receptionist was very rea...

Despite the fact that I'm too old, my doctor has consented to administer the HPV vaccine! I was in her office for a scheduled appointmen...

The move went successfully, despite my ridiculous exhaustion. (Lesson learned: take nyquill before bed the night before you move. The shower...

i'm surrounded by boxes and i hate it. the water pressure in my new shower needs viagra. i'm particularly pissed since the leasing ...

There was a blurb in the Toronto Star about new ads to raise awareness of violence against women. They're supposed to be attention- gr...