The sun is coming out and the city feels so beautiful! I think we’ll go to the beach today, or maybe I’ll go for a scenic evening bike ride. Unfortunately, the nicer weather means I remember why I love Vancouver, which means I’m less likely to leave. As mentioned before, Vancouver is very expensive. It’s…
About 4 years ago, a whack of things weren’t going my way. I’d had a couple of career setbacks, my romantic life was nonexistent. I was sad and frustrated. So I thought long and hard about what I really wanted. Not just: “I want it all!” but specifically: “I want x, y, and z.” I…
While I have some saucy friends who have taken and shared provocative photos, I’m not one for them myself. I blush whenever my husband tells me he thinks I look pretty*; I don’t think I could keep a straight face while posing seductively. A “boudoir” photo shoot is out of the question: I’d snort with…
A piece on the New York Times website gave me pause today, specifically this line: It’s impossible not to have favorites, and we do know that the perception of favoritism is one of the biggest factors in sibling rivalry… Yes – that one sentence is a direct quote from a pediatrician and professor at Johns…
Someone took a photo of Z and I the other day, and when I looked at it, I laughed. We look so awkward and uncool: “God, we look like someone’s parents!” This is not true at all for Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, who actually had children together. Imagine if this were your parents? I…
A couple of weeks ago, despite my best olive attempts, the rat race of city life was getting me down. So I dragged Z to a fishing-village-now-tourist-town on the coast for a restorative weekend. Tofino. It was beautiful, and I remembered something I’d forgot. In some places, there are no municipal bylaws prohibiting bonfires. You…
Earlier this week, I read an essay about Coco Chanel. In it, she’s quoted: Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. So bitchy, yes?…
Greetings, fellow readers. Today, it is glorious outside. It’s sunny and warm. All weekend it was sunny and warm, and when it’s really nice, I can’t remember why I ever feel depressed. And yet, sometimes, I’m a little down. A week or so ago, I was having one of those days. I’d had to pick…
One of my favourite college professors was a huge Life in Hell fan. I liked the prof so much that I bought a copy of the Love in Hell collection, thinking I might appreciate the humour. Little did I know that my boss was also a pre-Simpsons Matt Groening fan, and when he mentioned The…
Slava Fetisov is a boss, guys. If you weren’t alive in the 1980s, or were too young to understand what, exactly the “Miracle on Ice” was, you might not know who Fetisov is. If you watch Red Army though, after only about 3 minutes in, and see him condescend to the off-screen documentary film-maker, Gabe…
