impudent strumpet

The clutter in my apartment includes half-full bottles of drugstore shampoo from before I went no cone, and sticks of deodorant that I'v...

Most of the medical appointments I've had in my adult life have been to renew my birth control prescription. Red tape requires that I s...

The following is a scene from Strangers In Death by J.D. Robb. Relevant to understanding this scene but not relevant to the blog post as a ...

One of the many things needed at the Wellesley community centre is interpreters. According to someone who was there on the ground , langua...

For years, I've been trying to maintain a filing system where bills and receipts and important documents are sorted into different folde...

Recently in the news: many many dollars were spent at the G20 for many random things . All the news reports I've seen simply mention lar...

I'm really struggling with the fact that I have to vote for a school board trustee. I've looked at all my candidates' websites ...

I blogged before that my concern about having fire sprinklers in my home would be what happens if they malfunction. Whenever I express this...

When I was a kid, various adults (especially from my father's branch of the family) would tease me or pretend to do stuff that would mak...

This post arises from a combination of ideas. 1. A number of very loud political candidates want to wreck Transit City because they want su...

A while back, I heard the idea that shyness is selfish, and I blogged about why this selfishness (insofar as it is selfish) seems perfectly...

Torontoist's ward profiles include both mean ("average") and median household income for each ward. In some wards the mean a...

Is "balancing a chequebook" an actual task? I always thought it was just an expression for making sure you don't run out of m...

When I was in maybe Grade 6, in a class they called "Guidance" (which was basically an ineffective attempt to help us through the ...

Even though I'm nearly 30, the features that mark my speech as young and female aren't going away. I still use upspeak. I still ...

There has been talk of introducing road tolls to reduce congestion and help pay for infrastructure, and of course car people are vehemently ...

The Toronto Star's Public Editor discusses whether it's appropriate to use the word "accident" to refer to a car crash, o...

First day of kindergarten. I'm scared and nervous. I don't know objectively what my parents did or did not do, but I felt like no ...

I was shocked to read that Justice Lori Douglas "has requested to be temporarily relieved of her duties as a sitting justice of the pro...