I agree no child should feel like a burden, ever, and you are to be commended. Just know that parents of autistic children are experts. Of their children. Good luck and God bless.

I’m perfectly serious. As biologist Sara Hrdy said, “mothers are flexible, manipulitive opportunists”. From time immemorial we females of all species have culled, eaten, abandoned and aborted unwanted offspring. If the time and circumstances aren’t exaclty right - out they go. Like most mothers, once the decision to…

I was ball-shy (yes, I’ve heard all the jokes, go ahead anyway), and could not learn to play tennis to save my life.

I spent three of the best summers of my life working at a little scout camp in Eastern Ontario, just outside of Perth. I have literally dozens of stories from it (I’ve already told two here) but this is my favourite:

We had a HUGE raccoon population around the camp. Big families that would get into gang fights at…

It's totally a real thing! I went to Sicily last summer and one time I was TRYING to say, "Good morning, I would like a cappuccino please" but instead I was all, "I oppose gay adoption, and synthetic babies are an abomination against God and nature." It was so embarrassing.

If that was what she actually said I think I'd be okay with it. But she did a lot of glossing over of their actual statements. Rather than saying "boycotts are senseless because in our capitalist system shit floats to the top of there'd be nowhere to shop if we stopped buying from assholes," she was more like "I'm…

"...if I judged him based on the words that he misuses in our English language he wouldn't be here today."