I can’t endorse 20 Feet From Stardom, it’s like the Forrest Gump of documentaries, but the Netflix doc section is otherwise pretty amazing. I’ll co-sign the Grace and Frankie recommendation, and if you’ve been passing over Episodes, give it a shot.

Drink outside, mostly. Rent a bixi if you’re an experienced urban cyclist, otherwise walk everywhere. DO NOT DRIVE. Check cultmontreal.com every morning for highlights of gigs and events, and voir.ca if you read French (and ignore mtlblog, they’re utterly clueless and totally unethical). Lavitrine.com will get you…

Ok, now that is worth getting upset about

Yes. This is my life every day. Kale is cool, but going out to eat is the absolute worst - I have no choice but to be strict about gluten, eggs, and dairy, since they all make me very sick for anywhere from three days to three months (hello, my fellow celiac sufferer down thread!), and it is the worst to see whoever I…

Bingo. The things I am passionate about are for the most part not marketable skills (unless anyone has a lead on a well-paying job whose main duties are snuggling my cat, playing with puppies, riding my bike, etc.), so I “settled” for something I am interested enough in to try for a year and see where it led.…

In theory I do, but even without kids I find it hard to keep the discipline, so I still go to classes as often as I can (which is never often enough). As much as I hate everything they stand for, Yoga Journal has a pretty good sequence builder on their website that includes a kind of “find sequences for X problem”…

Note that I didn’t trot out the “find a career you’re passionate about” chestnut, but rather the “fuck it, do what makes sense and feels right” concept. I had no idea if I was any good at what I’m doing until I started doing it, and I wouldn’t have described the field it’s in as my passion, but going back to school…

I just kind of said fuck everything and went back to school. Perpetually having neither time nor money to socialize was a great reason not to if I didn’t feel like it, and the people who stuck by me through that and that I met along the way are my people now. Plus, I’d always been an underachiever, but it turns out…

Bikram is the one place where being naturally sweaty is an advantage, you just have to get past the initial urge to wipe your sweat off. If you have a studio that’s welcoming, inclusive, and supporting of all approaches to the practice and not just focused on churning out competitors and pushing people into bullshit…

Have you tried putting them on the back of your neck? Days that it’s literally hotter than India here, that’s my trick to continuing to love summer.

I realize “yoga” is not solid advice for someone with two little ones, but that’s one of my top three tricks. The other two are getting as much fresh air as possible (can you walk or bike to work, or to run errands? Can you sleep with your window open? Can the shrimps be taken hiking on weekends, even for short…

Exactly. The nature of my work is such that I can’t avoid having an online presence, but I keep my personal social media very far away from it and in theory locked the hell down.

That’s the dumbest part - my professional life is entirely googleable, if he was that curious literally one second of effort on his part would get him half of what he claims to want to know about. Good luck to you too!

This sounds very familiar. An all kinds of abusive ex saw me on the street with another man like a year after we broke up, and that resulted in the kinds of unhinged emails that got forwarded to a mutual friend with a request to rein him in before lawyers got involved. Fast forward to early Facebook era and the same…

Thrifting is the best. There’s some stuff I won’t thrift (the obvious) or that I gave up trying (jeans), but by and large, my wardrobe is thrifted for dresses and a lot of sweaters, ON for jeans, t-shirts, and tank tops, old-school Canadian-made Lulu for workout gear, and liquidation racks from other retailers to fill…

It’s possible three of us are the same person, but I turned the Old Navy jeans things into half my capsule wardrobe as follows:

I think just the edit with the note is fine

Yes! Shame today is a delightful direct trade Ethiopia Bulga just a couple of weeks past roast date, in an aeropress, with steamed almond milk. It is 100% worth the shame.

I hate that I know this but she did at one time make an appearance as part of one of their shows. I’ll be over here, drinking my coffee and living with the shame.

FTR that’s a star of been-there solidarity, rather than one of liking :)