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New: 1. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi 2. Pride by Ibi Zoboi Reread: 1. Ceremony in Death 2. Vengeance in Death

Many cash registers require the cashier to push one button if you're paying by credit card and another button if you're paying by de...

Some people perceive "you guys" as masculine, even in the vocative case. Others, such as myself, perceive it as having no elemen...

Apparently there was recently a story in the news where an airline requires passengers who are breastfeeding babies to cover their breasts a...

When you search for or click on a hashtag in Twitter, it shows you a feed of all tweets with that hashtag.  Useful! If you then click on t...

This post is available in English here . Les paroles de la chanson Let Me Go par Cake sont bien en anglais, mais il y a quelques phrases p...

Ce poste est disponible en fran çais ici . Every time I hear to the song Let Me Go by Cake, I wonder what the French words spoken under t...

Today I had a power outage for the first time in years, so it occurred to me that I should test my emergency radio. And it turns out the b...

On the front page of today's Globe and Mail, I noticed a small blurb about their logo : On Monday The Globe and Mail is introducing t...

New: 1. So You Want to Talk about Race by by Ijeoma Oluo 2. Hyperfocus: How to be More Productive in a World of Distraction by Chris Bail...

While searching for a different old post, I found this old post about trying to figure out a way to stop my sweaters from cluttering up my l...

When I was a little girl, I had an unsuitably early bedtime. I wasn't even tired until about 2 hours after my bedtime. (Not a good paren...

Chipo[l/t]e  The first time I ever saw the word chipotle, my mind inverted the T and the L and read it as "chipolte".  Then, af...

Captain Awkward #1203 : Hi Captain! I’m 24 years old, and next year I’m undergoing the “consecration of virgins” ceremony from Catholic...

I knew that when I switched from renting to owning that I would have to pay property taxes separately (rather than property taxes being incl...

I recently fell down an internet rabbit hole and ended up reading a parenting advice column . And it seems I have Opinions, even though I do...

New: 1. Lethal White by Robert Galbraith 2. The Pemmican Eaters by Marilyn Dumont 3. I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya Reread: 1...

1. Indicate on your Favourite Products list whether each product is available in your preferred store. 2. Indicate on your Favourite Produ...

The following is a quote from Hyper Focus: How to be More Productive in a World of Distraction by Chris Bailey. As usual, any typos are my o...