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New: 1. The Long Hello: Memory, My Mother and Me by Cathie Borrie 2. Muse by Jonathan Galassi 3. Little Elvises by Timothy Hallinan 4. ...

This post is part of my Voters' Resources post . 1. Of the parties running candidates in your riding, decide which one has the bes...

When I took the Vote Compass quiz, I was surprised to see that the relative positions of the Green Party, Liberal Party and NDP were differ...

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: To get to the other side! That was the first joke I ever learned, when I was maybe 3 or 4 years...

My apartment retains heat.  It holds onto the heat generated by appliances and electronics and me, and heats up as the morning sun shines th...

Once upon a time, when I was a little girl, I asked my mother why the word "university" has the word "universe" in it.  ...

Someone, at some point in human history, was the first person to cut hair.  Maybe they didn't even cut it - maybe they they just broke i...

On the front of my cable box is a digital clock, displaying the time in big green letters with the colon between the hours and the minutes b...

New: 1. Thrown by Kerry Howley 2. Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 by Annmarie Adams 3. Rides (Fren...

From The Ethicist: When my mother passed away, I inherited an antique necklace made of carved ivory beads. I love the look of — and am se...

One side-effect of working from home is that my subconscious seems to be less active.  I don't notice the lack of subconscious activity ...

A tiny family-owned convenience store in my neighbourhood has a Royal Bank ATM in it. Since the bank account from which I most often withdra...

I've blogged before about my various successful attempts to repair various malfunctioning household objects, so it's only fair if...

With the news that some Cuban Pan Am athletes defected , I find myself wondering why defecting is allowed from the perspective of the receiv...

I've blogged before about the mystery of doctors who choose to practise in a certain field of medicine even though they morally object t...

I grabbed a black umbrella at Rexall because they were calling for rain the day we scattered my grandmother's ashes, and I thought my us...

This summer cold has used up my stock of Nyquil, so I went to the store to buy more.  They've changed their product line since I last bo...

The ipod: a 4th generation ipod touch running iOS 6.0 The itunes: itunes 11.0 The computer: PC running Windows 7 I added some new music...

A few days ago, I turned on my TV, pressed the AV button on the remote to switch it to my Wii, and discovered that the AV button didn't ...