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New: 1. Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph 2. The Ghost and Lone Warri...

When I read this recent story about how the City of Toronto doesn't allow lawns made of artificial turf , my first thought was to wonder...

In the English-speaking world at least, ages of majority are weird.  It tends to be 18, 19 or 21.  But never 20.  Why are they avoiding the ...

In a recent Twitter thread where people were discussing why they wouldn't tell their fathers if they were raped, one commenter made a re...

The very first piece of clothing I ever owned that made me feel good in my post-puberty body was, weirdly enough, a pair of brown corduroy p...

I recently had to call CRA to deal with some boring grownup stuff. Everyone I talked to was awesome and helpful and extremely patient with...

Recently, for the first time since my head injury , I received a text to translate that I could actually read effortlessly! I immediately ...

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...