Well that actually helps... I’m going on mat leave soon so will leave it on my list for breastfeeding marathons :)

...really...?

It’s both fierce and adorable at the same time!

The books really are wonderful (says the 42 year old who has read them multiple times since childhood...), but maybe it’s just a slow starter for you, like Harry Potter was for me. I got through the first few books because I “had” to (I wanted to know what all the fuss was about and I was bored on a trip), but Harry…

Yeah no. Ontarian over here, with, erm, limited insight into the whole dealio... (I now work adjacent to the people adjacent to these files, no direct involvement but I see what’s happening and know how things work here). Trudeau most definitely supports the oil and gas industry, it’s the liberal positioning on…

I joke about it but I also did find that the movie Away We Go to be quite helpful in defining my approach to parenting, because even though the different approaches were clearly caricatured (Maggie Gyllenhall as the attachment parent nightmare was hilarious), there are still elements of both parent-led and baby-led…

I do substitute, and often leave out the meat entirely, but sometimes I do like the texture and the way meat enhances a dish -it’s more that I don’t like meat for meat’s sake, but what it can add to a dish in terms of richness and texture. And I make a mean Hungarian goulash from my grandmother’s recipe (with a bison…

I just snorted really loudly in my quiet office :)

Have you met many pigs...? Those fuckers will definitely survive, and they’ll turn the tables and eat *us* to do it...

Blech, if you don’t like the taste of meat it sure does need flavouring. I’m not strictly veg or vegan, but it’s only because I like some meat dishes with lots of flavours added (and mostly because I like eggs and cheese), not because I actually like the way unadorned meat tastes...

Nevermind, repeat!

Organic food production often includes the use of pesticides. And it’s only the organic/anti-vaxxer/anti-intelligence granola contingent who actually think organic farming hasn’t been touched by science (and there’s no getting through to them...).

Ha, my midwife’s office library doesn’t even stock it, they said while it’s mostly medically accurate it’s also shamey and terrifying*. But then they do stock all the Ida May yoni-flower-ocean wave-orgasmic birth books so I took it all with a grain of salt :)

Bite your tongue, Marmite is not the same thing! (says the Canadian who is villified daily for her love of vegemite!)

Pfft, Kiwis shouldn’t talk, they have Marmite which is worse...

I’ve only visited Auz couple of times, but vegemite is magical - delicious and also an excellent torture device to be judiciously deployed on my husband...

Being neither vegan nor Australian, I nonetheless submit that both are valid “something-rights” :)

Try 0-25 year olds for psycho-social development - legality (aka being 18), doesn’t magically turn someone into a thinking, reasoning adult. She’s still smack dab in the middle of the idiocies of youth. That said, it doesn’t excuse her behaviour, she made some undeniably shitty choices and she sounds like she’s much…

Um, he’s 87 and won an Oscar a mere 5 years ago, and has been working consistently in film and the international theatre scene for 50 years (he has a movie coming out with Vera Farmiga, he’s in The Tempest in the UK this year, and he regularly comes home to Stratford Festival in Ontario as well). He’s got no issues…

Well exactly. I have never beat a person up in my life, but I still wouldn’t want to be judged by who I was and what I did as a teen (and that with most of it classifiable as merely vaguely embarrassing, totally innocuous and occasionally dumb).