Musings
The enshittification of Loblaws, easily the largest supermarket chain in Canada, is well into the “squeezing with both fists” portion of our program. We all owe Cory Doctorow a debt of gratitude for his development of the concept of enshittification. Amazon is, of course, the poster child for this business
Musings
I have high blood pressure which I have had since my twenties. I had pre-eclampsia when I was pregnant. Over the years I have been on every kind of hypertension meds, and on none at all. When I was drinking, back in the day, doctors told me that alcoholism
Musings
When I was child, I was told I had Native Canadian ancestry, that some great-great-grandfather on my father's side had married a "lady of the land." When my daughter got married and decided to have children, I took a DNA test to find out
Writing
Based on a Reedsy prompt "So, what's the catch?" https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts "So, what's the catch?" I asked. The sign said "Free Passage to Earth!" I had to admit I had never heard that one before.
Musings
I remember walking into my third grade classroom for the first time. We had just moved to a Northern Ontario mining town, well after the school year had already started. This was not unusual, even at this early age, and we would continue moving every year or so until I
Writing
I sent a short story to a professional editor and paid him 75$ to edit it and give me some feedback. My first reaction to the marked-up story was “Look how they massacred my boy.” It looked like every sentence was wrong. Then there were two long paragraphs that
Musings
I play Freecell when I'm bored. It's a good solitaire game -- with distinct opening, middle, and end games -- and some of the hands are very challenging. Only a few hands are actually unwinnable, and I don't think the computer will deal those ones. As
Musings
I am afraid of becoming a monster—bloated and blind, with twisted limbs fumbling painfully towards remembered pleasures that cannot be seen and might not even exist anymore—like some kind of horror game mini-boss that must be put out of its misery before the game can progress. Everything
Musings
I like violent media. I don't know what that says about me, but I like watching stylized fighting on the teevee. I like watching John Wick fight like it's a job that he is determined to get right. I like watching River Tam fight like it&
Musings
Things that you have to feel, that’s what you define as real. The time you were beaten up for being poor, or Black, or Protestant, or Catholic, that's real, because that’s what happened. The time that something like that happened to a parent or friend, that’