I’m in Toronto so the states is an easy trip - I crossed the border four times between August 2015 and November 2016 but I don’t think I’ll go back in the next four years - maybe eight. Now we’re planning trips to Cuba and Europe for next year instead of New Orleans and California.

I have a friend who didn’t know that cooked broccoli is still meant to be green. She grew up eating a grey-green slush that was called broccoli and the first time she was served it elsewhere she didn’t know what it was.

In this one she’s a Japanese major, too. She just thinks it’s, like, a really beautiful language and culture.

Tres confused by your picture for a moment... I thought somehow I’d commented on this before I’d read it. Very time travelly of me.

Definitely! I kind of like looking forward and measuring my potentially-fertile life in IUDs. I was on the pill for 10 years so I’ll basically spend my entire adult life on some kind of hormonal birth control and I like that feeling of control.

I love my Mirena IUD. Total convert - I don’t think I’ll ever use a different form of birth control unless something newer and better enters the market.

I live in Toronto. I would not miss seasons. Is there sometimes sandal weather and sometimes scarf weather? Done.

Yeah, there’s so much of that in Toronto (the new and buzzy) but I tend to miss most of it. Half because I’m not very trendy and half because I figure if it’s good then it will be around long enough to stop having queues out the door.

I just googled Piano Piano and it’s described as “decorated with whimsy”. Gotcha.

Sure... but it’s almost always stranger rape, which is rare, whereas date rape (the most common) is underrepresented. When people want “trauma” they want extreme violence etc. but the real trauma is usually a discomfort that you can’t really pinpoint, or stress reactions in “normal” situations, ongoing trust issues…

Seconded. My first make out session was at a church camp. Also my second.

How would you even invite everyone? I think there were 350 people in my graduating class. Even if you went to a smaller school who keeps track of 50 people for 10 years?

You are right. Nice people are the worst. Except this one friend I have who is nice but not boring or annoying. I don’t know how she does it...

Wait, what? They named a kid Jinger? Is this a nickname? Is it Jinger like Ringer or Jinger like Ginger? It looks like a name for a dog, not for a person.

Sometimes I forget that getting married and having kids is the “normal” thing to want. I see people I knew in high school on Facebook and get this gut reaction of sympathy. “Oh, that happened to you? Hope you’re okay!” Then realize probably it was on purpose... (I’m 31 - lots of people are planning babies now.)

I always try to remember this. It’s so easy to pounce on people for things they “should” know, but we all learned things at some point! I grew up outside North America and used to say the “N word” (quoting lyrics, mimicking its use in movies). Moved here, learned the history etc. and why it’s totally inappropriate for…

Dear Kara: These are not “short” shorts. Please consider a fandom in Aussie Rules:

I love how people from America like to generalise their race issues to the rest of the world. Saying something is complicated, and saying it’s different to the US situation is not the same as saying it’s better or fine.

Yeah - my first thought, too.

Is this all an elaborate promotion for their soon to be released break up collaboration???