“Take a gander at my goose husband!”

I’m in the same boat, I’ve always read at bedtime but for the last few months or so I’ve messed around on my phone instead. I hate it, it’s a waste of time and doesn’t help me wind down like reading. I’m going to use this article as inspiration and try to get back on track though.

I love reading and have a ton of books, but I am the first to admit that modern tech has damaged my attention span, or rather I have let it damage my attention span. My new year’s resolution is to read a book for 30 minutes before bed each night and it has to be a ‘book for fun’ (i.e. Not for work or grad school). So…

Putting kids in time out when YOU need a moment to collect yourself is the exact right reason for time outs. For the rest of it, I have to dig deep and address the problem itself - respond, not react. Kiddo has to be in a receptive head space, so we both have to calm down first and then we can talk about what happened…

Isn’t that the point of having children though? To take out your vindictive rage on the helpless? Read your bible.

I’m not sure what the govt requires of us here in Manitoba (Canada) but I know that I qualify for a Metis card, since my French Canadian family traces their ancestry back to Louis Riel (look him up, he’s a pretty cool Metis revolutionary slash cannibalistic traitor to the crown depending on the source). However, as a…

If anything, the Boyden debate is a reminder of how quickly questions, particularly when posed by marginalized groups, can be perceived by the powerful as persecution.

I want him to win and then praise himself about how this gif has provided so much joy for the people of Aleppo.

That’s a Better Homes and Gardens Abomination - not necessarily a “Southern Thing.” But, Holy Hell is it gawd awful. I remember watching my young son take a spoonful of a greasy green jello concoction onto his plate. What he thought wasn’t what he got. I can still remember his horror-filled face. Not unlike the…

This is what happened to me. I just got greyed again because I made a stupid comment disagreeing with one of the staff. I didn’t think it was rude but I did want to voice my opinion about how that specific staff person’s pick was upsetting to me as a WOC. I am never rude to other commenters and though I will…

The Barenaked Ladies are the sole reason no one actually moves to Canada after elections.

Try getting old. I am 58 and my new superpower is that I am invisible to men under 80 as well as to a surprising number of women.

I’m confident the house comes with a battalion of ghost governesses.

It isn’t French because it’s inspired by French cooking, it’s called that because this is what you make when you surrender unconditionally to life.

Trump could use a Shawinigan Handshake.

Amen to that. Chretien essentially telling Bush to go fuck himself with regards to the war in Iraq made me stand up and applaud. I was so proud of him in that moment. Granted, he was near the end of his term and had little to lose anyway, but that’s exactly the kind of mettle we need.

Chretien was brutal against Bush and the US. He pulled no punches, and put up with no shit. He didn’t mince words or do word salad. He was like, fuck no and that was that.

Jean Chrétien was by no means a favourite of mine but he was fucking savage to GW Bush during his presidency. Trudeau needs to take a page from that book.

Here’s hoping.

The depressing newspaper articles really just add insult to injury. Our papers run about ten articles a week about how baby boomer investors have ruined the property market for gen y because it is guaranteed clickbait and always generates thousands of comments. One day there will be a civil war over this issue. I…