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New: 1. Queen of the World by Robert Hardman Reread: 1. Remember When

I was particularly disappointed to see that the City of Toronto isn't extending sidewalk snow clearing to areas of the city that don...

In the course of ordinary, in-store, non-pandemic grocery shopping, we often pick up items off the shelf and read the labels.  During the pa...

 As I've blogged about before, I've needed to up my hand lotion game because of all the additional pandemic handwashing. Lately I...

Sitting here watching the second wave of the pandemic spiral with those in power doing little to nothing, I find myself increasingly surpris...

I've always used the lemon-scented Cascade gel dishwasher detergent, which I believe is currently marketed as Cascade Original. However,...

From a recent Social Qs : When we visit my mother, she speaks to me in Hungarian, her native language, in front of my husband who doesn’t ...

1. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott 2. The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book by Neil Gaiman  3. We Are...

I recently saw a random internet stranger say "If I had $[specific dollar amount] it would solve all my problems." If I were han...

I've been doing my own nails at home for 25 years, and every nail polish remover I've tried takes a few scrubs and leaves my nails f...

New: 1. Margot and the Moon Landing by A. C. Fitzpatrick 2. Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley Reread: 1. Imitation in ...

We tend not to like to talk about class (in the socioeconomic sense) here in Canada. We tend to be more comfortable thinking of ourselves as...

My Babcia (my grandmother) died last week.  I'm still processing. I've never not had a Babcia before. She didn't die of COVI...

I have a lot of trouble wearing masks. I've learned some things that make it easier, and I've seen some people trying to promote mas...

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...