Another option (for avoiding pants that pinch or that you have to pull up all the time) is regular pants, but with suspenders. Ever since I started doing this, I’m so much more comfortable.

The mortgage the bank will approve you for isn’t necessarily the same as the mortgage you can comfortably afford to pay every month.

I had my grade 8 health class in a small town in Alberta in I believe 1994 or so. One day the teacher read off a definition of homosexuality. It was part of the curriculum, but was the ONLY mention of homosexuality (or any gender or sexual minority) and she wasn’t allowed to talk about anything that wasn’t in the…

I’m not sure how I feel about Sway yet, but this post also made me aware of Monument Valley, which is delightful, so I wanted to say thanks for that!

If I make meat in a slow cooker, do I have to pre-cook it to make it the right colour? Is it a health risk if I don’t?

That makes a lot of sense, especially with having to log in again. Thanks!

I’m wondering if anyone has advice for avoiding Uber, which is SO easy and convenient. If I’m running a little late and I’d have to run to the bus stop, I take Uber. If I’m tired and don’t feel like walking to the stop, I take Uber. If I have to carry something big, I take Uber. It’s hard to see a downside in the…

Thanks for this! I normally dump recipes into my Chrome bookmarks, and try to scale ingredients in my head, which leads to me forgetting to scale some of the ingredients. (For example last time I made banana bread it was too sweet and didn’t rise enough. Whoops!) I just imported two recipes instantly, and scaled…

This is actually similar to what I do, but the reason I do it isn’t time, it’s because I’m trans and the first time I walked into the men’s locker room at my gym, someone said “This is this men’s!” So then I was worried about my safety and about making people uncomfortable, if people thought I looked female. But then…

I admit I’m a little confused about the logic of carrying the pocket guide with you. That very guide warns that “Unusual precautions may make border agents suspicious.” If they search you and make you empty your pockets, wouldn’t having this guide count as unusual precautions?

There are a few different reasons. Some transgender people are often read as the wrong gender for various reasons, and can be in a lot of danger if they choose a mens or womens washroom. Some people are neither male nor female, so choosing a washroom that clashes with their gender identity can be uncomfortable. Some…

There are laws about how many toilets a business has to have based on the number of people the business can serve at once. Football stadiums and movie theatres aren’t suddenly going to replace their 50-capacity washrooms with a couple single stalls.

If you click through to the link, you can see that this is about single stall washrooms with a locking door. Only one person can be in them at once.

This is very helpful for me as a fairly androgynous trans person. I’m sometimes read as male and sometimes as female, so choosing either a mens or womens bathroom can be pretty nerve-wracking. Thanks for sharing this info!

This post reminded me to call my mom, thanks for that! :)

This is not a new issue but I had hoped they would fix it: You interact with the notifications differently depending where they are. On the lock screen you swipe them to open the relevant app, but on the recent notifications screen (pulled down from the top when the phone is already unlocked) swiping them moves you…

Where I live (Alberta, and I know a bunch of other provinces have the same system) you can call Health Link at 811 to talk to a nurse for free, 24 hours a day. They’re not doctors so they can’t diagnose you or prescribe anything, but they can tell you how worried to be about your symptoms, and whether you need to go…

I’ve never intentionally networked, but at the beginning of the year when I was looking for advice on how to put on a play, I found I had access to lots of people who had theatre experience. The people I asked for advice included people I had met at previous jobs and gigs, at a songwriting group, at an LGBT youth…

In some cases I imagine it would also work to turn the garment inside out before packing.

I have declined handshakes when I had a cold and it worked out fine. In that case I gave a quick explanation “I’m sorry, I have a cold right now” and made sure to acknowledge the offered handshake and be otherwise respectful (making eye contact, smiling etc). Some people use a different respectful physical action like…