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September 18, 2023

Murderbot Diaries: Unexpected Comfort Read

I’ve read All Systems Red by Martha Wells over a dozen times over the last few years. I could pretend I’m rereading the series again in preparation for the newest book coming out in November – System Collapse – but I read the series a few times a year whether...

September 14, 2023

Recipe Remixes For Fun and Profit or Why I Put Hummus in My Soup.

I take a casual approach to following recipes, and when I post about it on social media, some creators even take issue with it. Thankfully, many don’t care, and some even compliment me on my suggestions. Some people say that if I’ve changed the recipe a bunch, I should just...

March 25, 2023

Trans Rights Readathon – Middle Grade Reads

As I mentioned before, I’m participating in the Trans Rights Readathon. While I love reading grown up books and the whole thing, what re-sparked my love of reading a few years ago was the vast potential of children’s books to delight, to educate, and to expand horizons. We’ve been lucky...

March 15, 2023

Burger Time: Hamilton – Bring Me Some

I realized looking back that I’ve never talked about the amazingness that is Hamilton’s Bring Me Some. Well, it’s time to change that. Bring Me Some started out in the Hamilton’s Farmer’s Market and then they opened their own location at 638 Concession Street, in Hamilton’s Eastmount neighbourhood last year...

March 13, 2023

Trans Rights Readathon – Recommendations

I’m participating in the Trans Rights Readathon, sparked by authour Sim Kern, on tiktok, so if you’d like to sponsor my reading, please check out my fundraiser. I will be fundraising for Skipping Stone and Trans Wellness. Skipping Stone is an organization in Alberta that connects trans and gender diverse...

March 3, 2023

Port-Hope – Bualai Taste of Thai

One of the things we’ve been doing over the last few months since moving to Northumberland is finding some of the vegan friendly spots in the area. Recently we grabbed dinner from Bualai Taste of Thai in Port Hope, and enjoyed it quite a bit. It’s sort of funny how...

March 1, 2023

February Reads

February wasn’t a month for voracious reading, but some more cerebral pieces of literature made it through in addition to the usual sci-fi, cozy mystery, and somewhat off the beaten pack romance novels. I’ve been working in a bit of non-fiction into my repertoire, but not too much this month,...

February 1, 2023

January Reads.

This year reading has come easy, after letting go of reading challenges last year, and just letting myself go with the flow, and with my whims, I didn’t reach the end of the year racing to meet some arbitrary goal, and I feel better for it. I started the year...

November 18, 2022

Burger Time: Toronto – Soy Boys

I’ve been sampling a variety of vegan burgers the past little while, and most of them have been pretty decent. They’re often met with ambivalence (from me and others) after decades of lack lustre veggie burgers or non-vegan places phoning it in with a wilted mushroom cap or something. But...

September 6, 2022

The Hugo Awards – 2022

This was my first time attending Chicon, and the Hugo Awards, virtually of course, but what a treat it was. I’ve read so many of the nominees this year, perhaps next year I will vote, but voting seems impossible since I love so many of the books – in my...