impudent strumpet

I previously blogged about how when I was a kid I thought I'd need to give up my very favourite stuffed toy just because none of the ad...

When Dr. Morgentaler was awarded the Order of Canada, I wrote : What astounds me about Dr. Morgentaler is he had no particular reason to ...

I have a series of posts called New Rules: Natural Consequences Edition , in which I propose natural consequences rules for various behaviou...

Sometimes, when I'm walking down the street, I look around and imagine what a person from the past would think of what I'm seeing an...

I was having some mousing-related ergonomic issues, so I went and bought the Evoluent Mouse-Friendly Keyboard . Ergonomically, it does the...

I previously came up with the idea that they should study how gender imbalance (in this case, resulting from heavy wartime losses of the ma...

I have visual and audible email alerts for both my personal and my work email.  In general I'd rather have the alerts than not, but what...

My husband and I are preparing our wills . We have two adult children: a daughter who is more successful than we are, and a son, who has ...

Introducing myself to babies The first time I met my new baby cousin (technically my first cousin once removed - his mother is my cousin) ...

As I've mentioned before, I'm watching my grandmothers age and deteriorate and become more dependent on their children and caregiver...

Today my doctor told me that pap smears are no longer included in annual physicals.  This isn't the thing where pap smears are now once ...

1.  I had a song stuck in my head, but I didn't know the words.  It dated back to childhood, most likely from Sharon, Lois & Bram, a...

- I go to bed later, wake up later, start work earlier, and finish work earlier.  I've had a minimum of seven hours' sleep every nig...

(Previous editions can be found here .) Inspired by Sir Anthony Strallan on Downton Abbey and by the boyfriend of the first letter-writer ...

In a common English figure of speech, someone who "thinks the glass is half full" is an optimist, and someone who "thinks the...

I was very surprised to see that some people thought the word "pregnant" shouldn't be used in an elementary school yearbook f...

From Snopes, one of the accused Boston marathon bombers had apparently received welfare benefits while on a terrorist watch list I'm r...

From a Toronto Star article about solitary confinement (emphasis mine): The woman she saw that day looked humiliated and defeated, Pate...

The following is a quote from page 264 of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg.  As usual, any ty...