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New:   1. Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife 2. Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick D...

Campaigning that reached me: - 1 flyer from each candidate in my mailbox or under my door - Multiple phone calls from each candidate. Th...

This post is post-dated. If the date and time indicated for this post have not yet passed, there may be new material below it. Getting Sta...

I dressed in my usual black and purple election day outfit, but then decided to violate my "no party colours" rule by wearing my l...

There's a lot of "minimalism" lifestyle that suggests you should keep only the things you use most often and get rid of the re...

11. If Driver A honks at Driver B in a situation where moving would cause Driver B to crash into something or someone, Driver A (and their v...

In economics, they often talk about productivity, most often bemoaning the fact that it isn't high enough. I wonder if anyone has stud...

This post is part of my Voters' Resources post . Some people vote for the party whose platform they find most suitable (the Best Par...

I recently saw a video of my 1-year-old baby cousin running up and down a small grassy hill in her local park. It's quite evident from...

When I read this week's Ethicist , I kept coming up with ideas for compromises. My husband’s sister died recently, after a short, unh...

This post is part of my Voters' Resources post . Some people (such as university students renting housing in the community where th...

For most of the first-time homeowners I know, their first major expense was the result of being unaware of a kind of preventive maintenance ...

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...