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New: 1. The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House by Tessa Boase 2. Naked Came the Phoenix (serial n...

Content warning: this post contains graphic, yucky descriptions of blisters and feet. tl;dr: if you have blisters on your feet, soak them i...

With yesterday's legalization of same-sex marriage nation-wide in the US (congratulations, by the way!), I was surprised to see a few pe...

My various investigations into resilience tend to talk about change an awful lot, often framing people as either embracing change or being c...

A few months ago, they closed the Smart Set in my neighbourhood.  I was disappointed, because some of my very favourite shirts have come fro...

A while back, I came up with the idea that nursing homes should provide free esthetics services so female patients don't have to deal w...

My cellphone uses both the Rogers and Fido networks. The other day I was involved in a long texting conversation while walking around the ne...

At certain points in Western history, aristocratic women didn't dress themselves.  They had their maids help them.  Based on what I'...

New: 1. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe 2. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion  ...

When I was in elementary school (between 1985 and 1991),  this story-teller sort of guy came to our school and told us some stories.  When i...

I first saw this kind of sign in Frankfurt Airport in 1998.  I had just gotten off long flight and badly had to pee.  In my condition, ...

Whistling is hard, at least compared with other ways of producing potentially-musical noise such as humming or singing or just opening your ...

The "density creeps" who have been in the news lately remind me of one of the mysteries of Yonge & Eglinton: people who delib...

1. In one episode, the expectant parents with the Medical Drama of the Week happen to be a black couple.  It's mentioned in passing that...

There was recently a story tweeted into my feed about proposed "zero tolerance" for boycotting Israel . This reminded me of some...

I'm signed up for various free sample and coupon sites, and I've noticed recently that they are really pushing detergent pods, for b...

As you've noticed if you've been reading me these past few months, I've been getting stressed about various things that I think ...

This post was inspired by, but is not directly related to, this quiz testing how much you know about the new Ontario sex ed curriculum. (I ...

I was very happy to hear that the City of Toronto is consulting the public about indoor temperature bylaws for rental housing.  I'm mis...