I support this list but would have to add Christopher Plummer to it - he’s old as the hills but I’ve seen him in real life and he’s magnetic...

My very handsome childhood mutt lived to be my post-uni mutt, living to 20, still quite aware and mobile, if with a tendency to more frequent and longer napping (and with a bit of arthritis that we managed with occasional half doses of children’s aspirin). And I think he would have gone on longer if my dad hadn’t died…

And they’re not those hideous toe-shoes! Will look into them, thanks for the rec!

Yeah the hard impact on my volleyball damaged ankles and knees is rough, even with regular shoes, that’s what’s kept me away from barefoot running more than anything... I may try it all again in the spring once I’m done recovering from the gestation and delivery of my current spawn :)

I am, but they will very shortly be snow-covered :) And since I’m 7 months pregnant, I don’t think my lungs or glutes are up for it either. I did try sand running a few times in different vacation settings, it’s horrible, but I do see how it would be good for muscle and stability devleopment!

I heard a very interesting interview on CBC radio about how Facebook is also under investigation for the proliferation of “fake news” on its platform and how they may actually be be called before Congress - as well as how new regulations could be developed to make them more accountable for content, beyond their stupid…

You’re absolutely right, a good personality can transcend physical, erm, lapses? But he doesn’t have any of it...

I’ll give it a try again, I do still bike and swim and play tennis and volleyball, mostly without issues, but the running is so accessible if it doesn’t hurt, just find a spare 45 minutes and go out and do it... I miss it!

I’ve gotten so much conflicting advice on that. I’ve basically given up running (used to do triathlons) because of the onset of shin splints about 6 or 7 years ago. I did some barefoot treadmill running with the physio and that helped (and I’ve always been a “foot barer” in general, if I don’t have to wear shoes I…

But you’re completley right that that is all that Savage is competent to say with respect to child sexuality :)

I don’t mean to make you feel worse. But, as a Canadian, I had a thought this weekend - America is the world’s racist drunk uncle*, we’re all kind of waiting for the cirrhosis to kick in (we’ve lost faith that the next stint in rehab or the now unlikely liver transplant will do any good at all anymore).

Sure, in a simplistic, observational perspective kind of way. From a public health sexual and reproductive health educator kind of way that’s not actually a useful approach, but it is one that a lot of people ignorant of child development generally, and of sexual and reproductive health specifically, would do well to…

I have been open and honest about it when friends and family asked about a second baby. I said no, because I have Graves disease (hyperthyroid), and my thyroid instability post partum, and later the radiation treatment, meant that baby #2 was an unlikely possibility (I was very healthy and had a very easy conception…

He’s not actually wrong about child sexuality, but he is deeply, deeply wrong about notions of “intergenerational sex”.

Unless he’s a serial killer, that there gesture was his get-out-of-purgatory-free card :)

Oh nooo, I would have *loved* that solution, that’s a really cute and heartfelt effort...

I agree, so-called “universal” health care (as it’s currently implemented in Canada), is not a panacea so no, it won’t solve all health care problems in the US, it would just be a (great) first step.

We have medically trained and government regulated midwives in most Canadian provinces/territories too (as well as specialized Aboriginal midwifery programs), they have legal partnerships with hospitals and ob-gyns and fully equipped birthing centres for the more hippy-minded. They’ll even come to your home with all…

They’re only a “mad complicated” problem if there’s no comprehensive, patient-centric, non-profit health care system in place to manage them. Over a 5 year period, two of Canada’s *most* rural regions (northern territories), had NO maternal deaths - but two others (PEI and Yukon) had the highest rates (which likely…

It’s all good, cheese cake fills in the wrinkles better than botox :)