Michael Nutter, mayor of Philadelphia, introduced legislation creating an independent Ethics Board. Yes, ethics. In municipal government. By municipal government.Headlines almost wrote themselve...
I have accepted Starbucks as inevitability in my life. Once a symbol of wasteful consumption in my mind, the not so secret dystopian lair of “The Man” and classist brand snobs, I now understand that ...
When I was young, I loved Where the Wild Things Are, but probably only as much as you did too. Several generations of children, bound together by cat pyjamas and a cardboard crown liked every Faceboo...
I know, I know, but sometimes I go! & its nice to see you again too! I hope you just thought that.***"Life is too short and we cannot spoil it. I dont have 300 years in front of me. So I just...
You know how in war movies the woman is worriedly baking cookies in a poorly lit room just wondering if Johnny will ever come home? Its right about then that a truck comes into the viewers line of vi...
Somewhere between Arab Spring and feminist tween bloggingsensations, Canada became almost unrecognizable. It is much easier to pass offany critiques of social media and the internet as the older gene...
Youve heard more than enough about Kony 2012, but have you?This is a shout out from that suburban kid who used her new laptop to make organize a walk to raise awareness in Darfur. You could call me a...
Somewhere between minimum wage and the inordinate price oftext books we will barely use for some semester we find the time to care aboutmaking life beautiful. I’ve received more e-mails than you woul...
Of course, the description will tell you that its about left wing Baya who will sleep with right wing men to convince them to fight the good fight. This provocative, highly sexual approach at a summa...
When I was about sixteen years old, a girl I was kind of friends with regularly got beat up. I suspect it was by her boyfriend. Ill probably never know. I almost didnt write about this. Im too p...
How the heck do puppies lead to existentialism??!An mental crisis following the death of my grandfather coupled with a raging fever caused by too many walks with a certain impatient pug currently kee...
Heres a funny story that isnt that funny at all but Ill say funny because of the timing: Fifteen minutes ago, I heard someone call one of their friends (? I use this word loosely) a skitzo becau...
Some people find winter depressing, but I get more and more enthused. About silly things. Like socks. Because I HAVE to have something to be happy about! So although I giggled at the jokes told at th...
Im not the only one whose first love was the Internet. Long before I had discovered any kind of person crush, the Internet gained my trust with Audrey Hepburn & people who understood not lik...
(for what its worth, the top one is Wolfville & the second is Canso)All could think about before my first “professional” interview was American Psycho. Fortunately, I was not terrified enoug...
Everything I commit to type is everything I want to scream but cant.Somehow Ive felt as if I could separate who I was on the Internet and who I was in real life, even though if theyre the same person...
I pay a lot of money to go to school. Right now, all of the Americans who read this are laughing their heads off because my measly 6 grand hardly compares, but looking at other Canadian province...
Its hard when something is taken away. On Saturday, I was thrilled to see a friend who lives elsewhere only to find out that the circumstances of her visit were less than pleasant. Despite this, she ...
Women have taken great progress in defeating the snarky Mean Girls stereotype that everyone wants to pin on us, but that isnt always the case. Katie & I frequently talk about what the Internet te...
Once, over coffee, one of my friends was talking about how she always straightened her hair before a job interview or important career related event because in her mind, straight hair was serious, pr...
"What about your brain?"Maureens question threw me for a bit of a loop. As the owner of a strange but exceptionally curated consignment store, she would definitely know a thing or two about t...
A hundred has always been a magical number to me.Ive learned a lot in the year since I started this blog. Much more than the hundred little widgets Im going to share with you. A hundred was a fantast...
I never know what to do about the end of the year, & the begining of the next one, so frequently I just ignore it. Part of the pressure of the best of lists is selecting what you actually think w...
Youve probably noticed that things have slowed down a bit here in the mad dash known as me trying to get my shopping done while finishing up little bits and bobs of projects on my work term. To every...
When I was about 17 years old, full of vim & vigour & determination to one day be a "real grown up activist", I had the pleasure of interviewing a charming woman named Georgia who rei...
I hate that we allow people to disrespect women because its part of their culture.Jason Kenney has banned everyone from covering their faces during Canadian citizenship ceremonies. Finally.Yes, I thi...
Holiday cards to be sent, seasonal fruit to be eaten, and working 6 days a week, but one of them at a fantastic vintage store. Please excuse me for being late? Please?***-Not surprisingly, talking ab...
Adults were talking about my last post. Standing on that awkward, squiggly line between grown up and youth, I had forgotten that people older than me might also use the internet and might also click ...
Hey everyone, I know youre trying really hard to engage youth.Were a flighty, fickle demographic and we smoke joints & dont vote & wear garish colours on our nails that you dont get but want ...
I say this from the comfort of a relationship that I have never doubted, but I do not think that makes anything I say less true. I am not exaggerating when I say that almost every day I hear from gir...
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