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New: 1. The Ward Uncovered: The Archaeology of Everyday Life Edited by John Lorinc, Holly Martelle, Michael McClelland, and Tatum Taylor ...

1. Mark items as "essential" The first time I tried grocery pickup (in this case, PC Express at Loblaws), I was making the purch...

I blogged before about how people keep saying "things you have around the house" for things that I don't have around the house...

New: 1. A Better Man by Louise Penny 2. Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James Reread: 1. Purity in death

I blogged before about how the books used in the anti-racism unit in my Grade 9 English class didn't serve us well . Another aspect th...

This post is a full spoiler zone for the Sanditon miniseries. I recently finished the Sanditon miniseries, and was pleased to see that my ...

In Grade 9, we had an anti-racism unit in English class.  Works studied included To Kill A Mockingbird, Black Like Me, and Martin Luther Kin...

With all the extra pandemic handwashing, I needed to level up my hand cream game, so I decided to try O'Keeffe's Working Hands, whic...

I was identified as gifted when I was in Grade 5, which meant every year I'd get an IPRC, where I'd meet with my parents and the res...

Most people in my building seem to be voluntarily abiding by a one person/household per elevator rule. I do this myself. I live in the lower...

The April 26 Frazz comic : Caulfield: A few weeks ago, you were all but howling at the full moon. Frazz: Beautiful! Enormous, razor sha...

19. If you're giving advice on how to make or fix something, and you say you can do it with "things you have around the house"...

One of fate's running jokes during this pandemic is that my stuff keeps breaking. There's a sizeable rip in my winter coat that...

One thing that people have judged me for my entire adult life is having an unsophisticated palate. For many kinds of food, I'm perfectly...

An unfortunate trend that has emerged in the past decade or so is "app-only" - i.e. requiring a purpose-built app on a mobile devi...

Reread: 1. Reunion in Death

Many, many people who are smarter than me have commented on major policy and social changes that they hope come out of the pandemic - a robu...

1. Glassdoor for the pandemic With some jurisdictions permitting businesses to reopen, I wonder whether the employees of those businesses ...

In this pandemic, we're hearing a lot about contact tracing. We're hearing a lot about how it's a time-intensive and labour-inte...