I am honestly not the kind of girl to worry a lot about what I weigh or how I fit my clothes.
It’s six months now since I lost a whole bunch of weight, and I’m still wearing my 1-size-too-big-jeans because I can’t be bothered to buy new ’skinny’ jeans when these ones are perfectly good [...]

I have become that woman in the office. The one that everyone looks at when someone makes a sexist remark because they expect some reaction from my quarter.
I’m not even a guaranteed reaction. Seriously. I let about three out of four just go.
I don’t even know what to say. Clearly I’m s’posed to think it [...]

Since having Hannah, I have a low functioning thyroid. I’m on synthroid, and the doctor claims this will make me all right. And when I get my levels tested, and my levels are good, so she tells me I’m all right.
But this does not stop me from suffering weird things, which, when I finally think [...]

Servers who give you an extra sausage roll to apologize for making you wait
Hand-knitted things, home-sewn clothes
Wearing thick socks and sweaters and waterproof boots and a jacket and walking in the rain until your jeans are completely soaked and your hair is plastered to your head.
The blossoming of Ethan’s terrifying intellect, and my conversations with [...]

Oh my god! Dump-o-Grams?!
“Is that even real?” Ian said. And I said, “I don’t know, tell him you’ll pay him $10 to break up with me over the phone for you.”
“So it’s worth $10 just to find out if it’s real? Why don’t we go for the song?” Ian said (in the romantic spirit).
“Do we [...]

Oh, my god. I am going to start giving workshops on how to take care of people. Seriously, I am a ridiculously talented and well-rounded person*, but if I have a sterling talent - one that I feel I was born with outside knowledge of, it is taking care of people.
Actually, calling it a talent [...]

Running your copy past a committee is like running your sandcastle past the ocean.
There will be something left when it’s done. But it will be formless, meaningless and full of debris.

Ever worry that your lighthearted-days will ruin your feminist cred?
No? Good. Me neither.
. . .
Yesterday there was a barcamp event in Saskatoon, which I went to. Many of my work-peeps tend go to these things, and they’re a lot of fun. This one was very student-centric, and there was a lot more of beer-drinking during [...]

So. Feminism.
I mean, I know, right? Feminism is not the way to make friends.
Have to say, I think my feminist thinking really solidified during my time at home with Hannah. It felt like logical common sense stuff, so I wasn’t prepared to come back to the real world and have people act like I’m crazy [...]