My daughter had to watch Top Gun in grade 10 for some reason that escapes me now. I was upstairs at one point and all I heard was “Nooooooooo, Goooooooooose.” 

“I’m not being an individual on me own.” Derry Girls so worth the watch just for that alone.

What a terrible idea! Just go to your local thrift store and buy some glassware. Pack it into a box for your next party. I never have champagne in the house but was gifted a lovely bottle. Picked up a bunch of flutes at Value Village for a couple of bucks. All different sizes but no one cared.

What a terrible idea! Just go to your local thrift store and buy some glassware. Pack it into a box for your next…

Interestingly, there is debate going on right now about land acknowledgements: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/redrawing-the-lines-1.4973363/i-regret-it-hayden-king-on-writing-ryerson-university-s-territorial-acknowledgement-1.4973371?cmp=rss

Thank you! There has been various diagnoses over the years - anxiety, depression, OCD - and her psychologist thinks that those issues were masking her ASD symptoms. Her self-esteem is practically non-existent at this point and she is feeling rather hopeless. I am glad to hear that you are doing well! That gives me…

My 17-year-old daughter was just diagnosed with ASD. She had been diagnosed previously with OCD. We are having major issues with food. I would love to talk to someone about this.

That book seriously unnerved me. My husband was working nights and I stayed up until 2 a.m. finishing it and didn’t sleep until the sun rose over the horizon.

Diary of a Teenage Girl.

School Library Journal not Student Library Journal.

The NRA has 5 million members? I expected it to be higher given their influence. That’s not sarcasm, I am genuinely bewildered. That’s 1.5% of the population and they have this kind of stranglehold on politicians? I get that it is about the money but that’s a lot of policy influence for an organization whose…

My daughter is a picky eater and has some OCD issues related to food. She sent me this:

I did too! I binge-watched it. She was just so wonderful to watch. I cried more than once.

I try to look as well. There was a terrible case of a young girl raped and murdered in a community to the west of mine. Most people I know avoided the reports of the trial but I was struck by the Crown Attorney who said that we all owed it to the victim to bear witness. She endured such horror and we all had a…

Anyone else binge watch Sensitive Skin? THAT needed a 3rd installment.

I remember looking at my watch and thinking, “That iceberg better show up soon.” My teens only knew the movie through memes so against my will we watched it (on 2 VHS tapes!) not too long ago and it was just as bad as I remembered.

I told my kids: no guilt. Keep what you want, get rid of what you don’t. Don’t feel you have to hold on to stuff because “Mom loved this and would want one of us to keep it.” Mom’s dead. She won’t know.

Keyword: almost. :)

My mother was so terrified by the Exorcist that she would go into my brother’s room at night to make sure he hadn’t been possessed. He was a demon but not a literal one.

There was something weird going on last year with young women and eyebrows. They were doing them up to the point where they didn’t even look like they were made of hair. I hated it but kept my mouth shut in case she saw old pictures of me and my friends with our bangs hair sprayed straight up. Like vertical.