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Perhaps my most favourite spam email of all time has arrived.

In this day and age, it is rare that I see any of the spam emails that come through my Inbox. These new finagled Junk Mail filters have greatly improved…

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A disappointing find: Retail price cover ups in broad daylight

Oh Rexall, how you have let me (read: everyone) down. I spend quite a bit of time making sure to find the best value for each and every one of…

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You know what is really upsetting?

This. The picture says it all. Tell me you see it too. And while the picture says it all, I will add (this very long, run-on sentence) that when you…

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Have I been doing it wrong or are they doing it wrong? My world is upside down now. How do you do it? No, not that it.

One of the things that I enjoy about going over the border to the US is that it gives me the opportunity to tour through American grocery stores and snag…

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I’m no design diva or anything but, um, hello?

So, the other day, we took the smalls across the border to Buffalo to celebrate Mason’s 11th birthday. He loves going to Niagara Falls and checking out the Buffalo scene,…

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I was in the middle of another post – confession

I was in the middle of writing a different, somewhat happy post when I had to run across the street to pick up kids after school. Putting on my running…

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I am living with a serial killer and I have the proof

Totally not a joke. For a while I thought it was just a phase. A passing, twisted, gross phase. I’m not a cat person and I’m not a cat. I…

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Does anyone else suffer from emotionally induced email dependency?

When things go horribly wrong, and someone who is important in my life is upset with me, or we’re arguing or disagreeing about an issue, depending on how much I…

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I ate this (a blatant display of self-abasement)

and immediately felt guilty. I felt like a terrible person. I felt like a failure and a loser and bad parent and a poor example and really, quite honestly, worth,…

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Dear L.L. Bean, I am sad. And it is your fault. Again.

Dear L.L. Bean. I am a long-time admirer of your store. Since childhood I have coveted your monogrammed backpacks, warm sweaters and sassy summer fare. And as a child, you…

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