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New: 1. Dico des mots qui n'existent pas et qu'on utilise quand même by Olivier Talon and Gilles Vervisch  Reread: 1. Born in Death

I recently had a new idea, inspired by an Ask A Manager column and my own job-hunting experience: New rule: if you reject someone because ...

The cupboard where I keep my cups is precariously full. And I often run out of cups (or appropriate cups, e.g. I have wineglasses but don...

New:   1. Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World by Sali Hughes 2. Very Rich by Polly Horvath Reread: ...

My first vaccine was AstraZeneca, administered at a local Rexall. At the time, I was told to wait patiently and Rexall would contact me for ...

Many words, terms and phrases have a common go-to translation, but also have scope of meaning that doesn't fall under the common go-to t...

 Reread: 1. Origin in Death

A thing that exists in the world: well-intentioned people who have innocent questions that they want to ask for a good reason.   Another thi...

A weird thing about the way we talk about health in our society is that the notion of "being healthy" has an intrinsic element of ...

I've discovered a neat trick: you can intensify any sentence by replacing "person" (and similar synonyms) with "human bei...

Latest pandemic malfunction: the container I use to store my cooked pasta broke! When shopping online for an appropriate-sized replacement, ...

1. Golden in Death by J.D. Robb 2. Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes by Wab Kinew 3. If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric G...

In April and May, I took 4 straight weeks off work, the longest vacation I've taken in my life. I didn't accomplish a thing. It was ...

I signed up for the Rexall and Shopper's Drug Mart vaccine waiting lists in early April, then signed up for the waiting lists every othe...

 1. Collected Tarts and Other Indelicacies by Tabatha Southey

A thing that exists in the world: kind, well-intentioned people who are concerned about others' health.   Another thing that exists in t...

In reference to whether it's possible to have relationships with people with different politics, someone much smarter than me (and I wis...

This blog post discusses a non-sex-related letter from a sex advice column. The text of my blog post is perfectly G-rated, but the linked ad...

Dear Captain Awkward,   There is a word people use all the time as filler in their speech. I first noticed it about 8 years ago and though...