Oddball animal sex facts, just for the fun of it — “Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it” … or so goes famous the Cole Porter lyric. But exactly HOW some critters “get it on” may leave you gobsmacked. May I mist you? Who needs a spritz of Chanel N°5 to set the mood? Not the porcupine. The male simply sprays…

How was yours? — “World’s Best Mom,” proclaim a good number of the greeting card choices on my local supermarket’s racks these days. With North American Mother’s Day fast approaching, greeting card companies seem to believe there are many qualifiers for the “World’s Best” title. Some famous, fabulous moms Scientist Marie Curie would certainly qualify as an extraordinary…

Meet Myrna — but be on your best behaviour. This outspoken “Internet Grandma” does not suffer fools gladly. Fictional Grandma Myrna Tellingheusen has been cracking up her Twitter account followers— all 153K of them! — with her snarky and satirical pearls of wisdom for years. …

“Not in my back yard!” That was my reaction when I learned — three days after we’d signed to purchase a bungalow in a middle-class class neighbourhood in Kitchener, Ontario— that the Feds had decided to build a new prison for women across the street. A realtor-friend speculated that our…

What I should have said was . . . — Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars was heard around the world. But sometimes people slap us across the face with their rude words or snide comments (e.g., “You look good for a woman your age.”), and we’re rendered speechless. I was never good at snappy comebacks. But…

My husband and I are celebrating 35 years of marriage this month. It’s been good. Great, even. And yet … there’s a certain conversation that comes up with “fingernails-scraping-a-blackboard” frequency. Him: Have you seen my [insert object name here]? Me: It’s wherever you left it. Him: I just had it. Me…

As a klutz, I knew kissing would not come easily to me — To kiss: the act of touching one’s lips to someone else’s in a show of affection. It sounds simple, but as a teenage klutz, I knew kissing would not come easily to me. Spatial awareness has always been a stretch. When I execute forward motion in proximity to other objects…

“You don’t like fortunes? Maybe fortunes don’t like you.” — Marvin hesitated before taking the last bite of his Tai Dop Voy. Once his first course was consumed, he’d be forced to confront the fortune cookies. And it had come to that: an absolute showdown. He’d been so pleased when Joy Luck Wok had opened on the corner. A Chinese…

A Photo Tribute on International Women’s Day, 2022 — Meet Catra, the Cat. Like every four-legged critter fleeing Ukraine these days, Catra is exhausted and confused. But she’s also proud of herself — and even prouder of her “cat-mom.” It’s International Women’s Day, 2022. This year, as war rages in Ukraine, this special tribute goes out to all affected…