2024 Posts
You can dress me up
October 29, 2018
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There was an interesting op-ed in the Globe and Mail this weekend by Elizabeth Renzetti about dress codes in schools. Specifically, dress codes for girls because it seems that girls are the only sex that warrants dress codes. And this ...
Cat-napped
October 20, 2018
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I don’t know why I obsess so much about putting my cats’ food in a clean bowl. Anyone who has an up close and personal relationship with cats knows they like to put on a show about being clean, but ...
Sink or swim
October 8, 2018
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You never know when your last cottage lake swim is your last cottage lake swim. I don’t mean the “swims” that can happen any time (whether ill-advised or not) when exiting the sauna. I mean the swims that are self-initiated ...
I think it’s going to be a long, long time
September 10, 2018
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The kitchen light at the cottage has burned out. Just the kitchen light bulb, actually, since no light fixture has graced it yet. This required a fourteen-foot ladder to be brought into the kitchen complete with various vestiges of circular ...
Welcome to the Lakeview Room
August 30, 2018
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Welcome to The Lakeview Room Treetops, SML Township of Georgian Bay, District of Muskoka Your Premium Accommodations are ready for your enjoyment. Here are some things that will help you enjoy your stay: 1. Choose the towel of your choice ...
Now I lay me down to sleep
August 11, 2018
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Dorm rooms are built for function over form, kind of like conference room chairs are built for stacking not sitting. Dorm rooms are not interested in your enjoyment of anything. You are not here for aesthetics, you are here to ...
Homeward bound
July 30, 2018
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Downsview Park is not a park and has no view. Discuss. Maybe that’s not entirely true. From the GO train upper level you can see the CN tower way in the distance, like a beacon of refuge for suburbanites yearning ...
And they’re off!
July 8, 2018
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The Woodbine Racetrack used to be sort of on the outskirts of the city but is now warmly embraced by suburban sprawl to the north and east. On the west, it snuggles up against YYZ, with a fine view of ...
100 Mile Diet
June 26, 2018
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I am sorry to report that I am harbouring both a serial killer and a zombie. His name is Dennis. I am not trying to blame the victims here, but I do not know how a fifteen pound, eleven-year-old cat ...
Is this the real life? Is it just fantasy…
June 17, 2018
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Spring has slammed into summer like a renegade shopping cart in a crowded parking lot. The leaves are already dark-green chlorophyll buffets for tiny caterpillars with an indeterminant place on the food chain. In the coniferous corner, this year is ...