These past few weeks have been ones for the books. When I first started hearing about coronavirus, I wasn’t worried. In hindsight, I guess I thought it might be another SARS or H1N1 panic. I thought maybe in Wuhan, the government had been in denial and that was why they’d been hit so badly –…
It’s been a while since I posted links to excellent articles I’ve read, but don’t worry – here are three thought-provoking pieces, which share a theme. Gorgeous short story in the New Yorker, about life. Fraud committed by TTC employees The WeWork Founders and their yoga-inspired business plan
Many, many years ago – in highschool, in fact! – some friends and I were on a trivia team. We actually competed on a nation-wide quiz show. Some of the answers we got, some of the answers the other team beat us to the buzzer, and a couple of the answers we got wrong. One…
Two things happened recently that made me think a little more about skincare: Z and I moved to a place with a larger bathroom. Our old bathroom was pretty dingy. This one is somewhat less dingy, however, the lights above the vanity mirror were out. Z replaced them, so now I have a bathroom with…
The Top 5 Things I Wore While Pregnant For a lot of my pregnancy, I wore my regular clothes – or some of my regular clothes. My regular leggings took me a long way, and so did some of my shirts. (I don’t wear a lot of tight fitting clothing). I have a couple of…
Coach Monica Aldama’s tough conversation with Lexi Brumback Like a lot of people, I enjoyed Cheer, for a lot of reasons. It’s wonderful to see elite athletes at work – to see the enthusiasm, mentality and practice that goes in to being able to compete at such a high level – these everyday humans completing…
I’d heard all sorts of things about Fleabag before I watched it. How funny it is, how smart. What I wasn’t prepared for when I watched it was the grief. Fleabag is a portrait of a woman in grief. In season 1, which I thought was the more interesting season, we meet Fleabag after she…
There’s a brilliant lyric in Truth Hurts, the Lizzo song: Yeah, I got boy problems, that’s the human in meBling bling, then I solve ’em, that’s the goddess in me Luckily, it’s been playing on the radio here lately, and this lyric makes me think of a book I’ve recently read, Madeline Miller’s (also) brilliant…
I was a huge Game of Thrones fan. Huge. At one point, I described it as my “all-time favourite show“. And it was, until the last couple of seasons. I watched the last season, season 8, and I became very active on Reddit. Specifically, on the freefolk thread. I’d describe my watching the show as…
It’s me! I’m back! Back, and with a living, breathing baby daughter. 🙂 A while back, I mentioned that I was having a hard time getting pregnant. That turned out to be an understatement. Getting and staying pregnant became an obsession for me; doctor’s appointments and research and crying and trying to find people, women,…
