I remember Elsie from A Beautiful Mess (lifestyle blog) mentioning that she bought some of the books for her rainbow shelf just for their colors. She did buy most, if not all of them at thrift stores though, at least. So yes, such is the case for some people.

You just reminded me that my first kiss was with a 24 year-old man. I was barely 14. Yuuuuuuck. I think I already knew it was gross immediately afterwards. He knew I was 14. My friend and I would hang out with this group of guys who were over 20, including first-kiss guy. Another one of them tried to sexually assault m…

As an outsider with a keen interest in French culture, I may entirely be off base but there seems to be a cultural shift that is taking longer to operate in France than in other countries with regards to sexuality and consent, especially in some intellectual and political circles. Some of these intellectuals and…

Excellent book. Horrifying story.

Agreed! Her death was so strange. It haunted me for days.

Oh dear, I cried so much when he passed. We named our cat Jack after him ( the one who is currently pawing my arm so i feed him). My dad was also dying of cancer at the time so it hit super hard.

As a hypersensitive child, I developed a fascination with celebrity deaths around the age of 10. I had been exposed to death around me, in “real life” you could say, but hearing about the deaths of famous people on TV and on the radio was both mysterious and memorable to me for some reason. I think I was highly…

Holy crap, I was about to purchase those classes. I actually had it in my schedule to buy them. Nope, no more. Same goes for other mommy influencers like Ellen Fisher. Supporting fascism is unacceptable.

Oh dear. You just reminded me that in elementary school, we had an English side and a French side, with separate administrations, students and grades (long story as to how that happened) and there was so much friction that they had to make sure we met as little often as possible to avoid conflicts. So the Anglophones…

Oof, I can relate to that one. I was 8 years old for the second referendum in 1995, coming from a family with an anglophone dad and a francophone mom. I was torn on both sides, as the people at my school (anglophones) saw me as a traitor and my francophone family and parents’ group of friends was hyper separatist so…

On reddit, someone found that it is an Airvida “wearable air purifier”. It seems like an expensive useless necklace. OMG, just realized that he probably thinks it will keep COVID away from his face...

The first American Pie movie. I was a young teen and I watched it alone with my dad. Awkward as hell.

I understand what you are saying but no, this was bad. His ex-wife and children could have been in the house when it was set on fire. Thankfully they weren’t. The arsonists were extremely careless.

Hey was tried in Lithuania, not France (it happened there), which may have something to do with the fact that he only got 8 years. It was the lithuanian system and so much shady shit went down during the trial. If I’m not mistaken, he was transferred to a French prison after 1 year in jail in Vilnius.

Oh yeah. I was a young teen when this show was airing and i remember being so jealous of Anne-Marie Losique back then and finding his behaviour so charming.  Now the main words that come to mind are barf, ew, oh my god, why, no, perv, wrong, douche, harassment...

I love Jose Gonzalez! Can't wait for the new album! His cover of teardrop is just amazing...

I can't make fun of this guy... i have to admit I accidentally burned not one but two Diva cups while boiling them. I'm working hard on not making it three.

Oops, thanks for the info. My brain is off duty today (I just finished an intense work week). Some of these formulations are also due to the fact that even though I'm fully bilingual, my first language is French, so that affects my sentence structure in English sometimes.

I was thinking about that this morning, when hearing a report about the Truth and reconciliation commission that is going on right now (about the terrible mistreatment of First Nations people who were forced for decades to attend residential schools, often being raped, tortured and striped of their culture and…

As of now, there are 6 women holding the job of provincial prime-minister in Canada (which has 10 provinces and 3 territories). To the 6 of them, they govern something like 90% of the country's population. Not all of the women are as progressive as Mrs. Wynne, but I still think this is pretty cool news in terms of…