Having just spent an entire day on phone calls and chat lines attending to billing and maintenance issues with five different service providers, I am ready to slit my wrists. Trying to resolve issues with the telephone company, the gas company, our cellphone provider, our satellite radio service, and our home security provider, I was left feeling exhausted, angry, and frustrated that everything had to…
Are you still enjoying the internet? Does it still excite you the way it once did or has it become a chore, an onerous and exhausting exercise you devote countless hours to simply because it’s there demanding attention? Do you mourn those wasted hours on Instagram and Facebook absorbing useless information and following vague threads to a questionable end? I signed on to Substack last…
When I first heard that the Canadian government has mandated free sanitary products in government and public buildings I found myself saying a silent thank you on behalf of all women. One step forward. Would anyone expect to encounter a washroom not supplied with toilet paper to attend to our personal sanitation needs? The same guidelines apply to other sanitary products. Half the population would…
Timothy Leary’s rallying cry for hippies of Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out has new meaning these days. Turning on has lost some of its rebellious cachet now that weed has been legalized in Ontario and boomers are tuning in on a different frequency. If you’re like me, many boomers are now committed owners and users of hearing aids. Just as surely as we all…
There was a time when I could eat pretty much anything I wanted without consequences. In the mid-sixties when I worked for Bell Telephone in the Maclean-Hunter building on University Avenue, my friend and I used to order mashed potatoes with gravy and dessert with every lunch in the cafeteria. Then, without an ounce of shame or regret, we treated ourselves to a butter tart…
We spend an incredible one-third of our lives in bed, whether our own or someone else’s. That adds up to almost thirty years in bed, and that investment of time deserves a good mattress and good sheets. We recently updated our mattress to one of those trendy memory foam thingies which I’m still somewhat ambivalent about, and thought I deserved some new sheets to go…
