impudent strumpet

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Books read in June 2022

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New:  1. The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson 2. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Jen Gunter Rerea...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Things They Should Invent: kitchen catchers shaped like grocery bags

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As I've mentioned before, I routinely use plastic grocery bags as garbage bags. However, as I've been streamlining my shopping durin...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Not that there's anything wrong with that

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The other day I saw someone tweet that cis Gen Xers need to talk more about how homophobic society in general was in the 80s and 90s. So my ...
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Monday, June 20, 2022

The Boy Who Cried "No Wolf!"

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I was talking to my doctor about the risk assessment of getting dental care (given that I'd need to remove my mask to do so), and he sai...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Cause and effect

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In 2009, City of Toronto workers, including garbage collectors, went on strike because the employer was trying to take away their sick days ...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Books read in May 2022

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New:   1. The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion by Matt Whyman 2. Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

The generic "you" is a useful tool for writing inclusively

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With reproductive health in the news lately, I'm seeing a lot of people diligently endeavouring to make their statements about bodies an...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Read Aloud

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In my work life, MVP of all computer tools since my head injury is the Read Aloud function in Word. (Similar functions exist in other softwa...
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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Grade 13

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Recently in the news: a plan to bring back Grade 13 .   We had Grade 13 (then called OAC, which stood for Ontario Academic Credit) when I wa...
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Saturday, April 30, 2022

Books read in April 2022

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New:   1. Nighttown by Timothy Hallinan 2.  Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland by ...

Can I claim to be an influencer now?

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Five years ago, I blogged about the delight of having new Fluevogs and new Star Trek . This year, Fluevog is making the uniform boots for St...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Building a better Sunshine List

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1. Remove all names.     Lately, I've been seeing people talk about expanding the Sunshine List to include all public servants at all pa...
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Thursday, March 31, 2022

Books read in March 2022

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New:  1. Lightfall: The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert 2. Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb 3. she walks for days inside a thousand eye...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Magic words: "and also"

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We live in a complex and imperfect world. This sometimes results in having complex and imperfect thoughts, feelings and opinions that aren...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Knix Catalyst: a full-support sports bra that doesn't hurt!

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This post is a review of a bra. The content contains non-sexual descriptions of breasts, and the links contain catalogue-style photos of bra...
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Monday, February 28, 2022

Books read in February 2022

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New:   1. Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson 2. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead  3. Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson 4. The Sc...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Twosday!

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(I know I already posted this on 2/2/22, but today is even twoier and it's a Tuesday!)
Thursday, February 17, 2022

My third COVID vaccine experience

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They opened up boosters to my demographic on December 20. On December 17, some of the major pharmacy chains let people in my cohort start si...
Tuesday, February 08, 2022

How to gift your child wedding money when you don't trust their choice of spouse

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From a recent Ethicist : My wife and I have two adult daughters. They are very close in age and deeply connected to each other (thankfully...
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