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New:   1.  Working with Difficult People: Handling the Ten Types of Problem People Without Losing your Mind by Amy Cooper Hakim and Muriel S...

As I've blogged about before, spicy food doesn't work for me . It's physically painful in a way that drowns out the underlying f...

A strong narrative early in the pandemic was also if we do the right things, we'll be okay. Mask up, stay home, be kind, we'll get t...

New:   1. Dancing Through the Snow by Jean Little 2. City of Dragons: The Awakening Storm by Jaimal Yogis & Vivian Truong 3. In the Silh...

New:   1. How To: Absurd Scientific Solutions for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe 2. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny 3. P...

I keep running up against the problem of not being able to find a good word for the overlap between "walkable" and "accessib...

From time to time, charities I've donated to send me a fundraising letter with a small free gift, in an attempt to entice me to donate m...

New:   1. When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson 2. The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell   Reread:   1. Indulgence ...

Recently in the news: a proposal to tax the childless in order to incentivize people to have children .    That will never work.   Here ar...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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