Except I don’t even think that’s honest, I’m pretty sure he was all for abortions over the years, and not just those that affected him directly (i.e. trying to force Marla to get one...).

When I found out I was pregnant at 6 weeks, I thought I was only 2 or 3 weeks along (my period is *very* reliable). But it turns out that it had happened the previous month, and what I had taken to be a very light and short period (which wasn’t unusual for me since I have thyroid disease and I wasn’t sure if my meds…

thanks :)

Lol, my “nos” are similar in that they involve the great outdoors, but more related to why I don’t particularly want to (literally) get down and dirty miles deep in the backcountry forest far away from our camping friends and entirely *too* close to potential black bear/coyote/cougar dens ;)

Ha, that’s basically how my partner and I started up. After enthusiastically making out for a bit on my couch one night I dragged him to my room, tearing his and my clothes off, and he kept asking if I was sure - *he* was sure, but was I sure I was sure?? I was sure, and communicated that enthusiastically :)

Snort. “Trying something with strangers” was basically my introduction to sex as a medium-town girl growing up in Ontario in the 90s. I can’t count the number of times I was groped by hopeful, quasi-drunken guys in a variety of situations in my late teens and early 20s (in my bed, his bed, *a* bed, the floor, a couch,…

ETA still not sure I would sleep with him or the others, but I *think* I would definitely enjoy being wined and dined by him...

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…