Becoming a Functioning Adult: Investing in a Wardrobe
I recently did an inventory of my closet to see what my clothes “say about me.” If you think this idea was hatched from a women’s fashion magazine, you’d be right. The advice it dispensed was both common sense (“Avoid…
Becoming a Functioning Adult: Cooking
In preparation for my move to Toronto, I’m trying to be a better Functioning Adult. This involves cooking and eating better, exercising daily, and letting go of unnecessary things like clothes that don’t fit, orphaned balls of yarn, and most painful…
A B-b-b-blue Christmas
I’ve never in my life heard Porky Pig’s “Blue Christmas”, which I’m told is kind of a travesty. I feel like it’s a cultural touchstone that everyone’s grown up with, sort of like The Princess Bride (which I saw for…
Hello Toronto!
Yes, I am moving to Toronto next Spring. It’s happening. It’s real. Who knows what fortunes await. Whatever they are, I’ll be ready. Do YOU live in Toronto? If so, let me in on the good stuff – food, neighbourhoods,…
Making Sense of (a) Life
Lately, I’ve been kind of obsessed with biographies. I’m working my way through Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs – the one with the elegant white dust jacket and Steve, eagle-eyed, staring pointedly at you, blown up to fill the cover. If…
