No Matter Where You Live, We Can’t Shake Hands

A while ago, I constructed a list of kids’ songs that weren’t totally obnoxious. I was thinking about that list, and realized this one is ruined. Lyrics are here. Thanks, Coronavirus! We certainly *don’t* want to teach kids to shake hands right now. That song is so beautiful, so simple, and so sadly not a …

There Was Squeakin’ In The Park One Day

I know this is old, but it’s an excuse to tell a silly story. A few months ago, I heard about a ton of guinea pigs getting dumped in a park. At the time, Steve and I asked why someone would do that, and I immediately thought of the song above. I’m pretty sure guinea …

Reminiscing About Tansy’s Second Trip To Her Raisers

As always, after I’ve taken a trip, I take forever to blog about it. This one was almost a year and a half ago. But I felt like writing it down because if this garbage Coronavirus hadn’t come along, I would have likely been back there this week. Back in March of 2019, when life …

The Scoop On This Disability Tax Credit-Related Payment Thing

So there’s been a bunch of confusion about this new one-time COVID-19-related payment of $600 that you get if you have the Disability Tax Credit here in Canada. People are running around wondering if they need to apply for something special to get the payment. If you already have the Disability Tax credit, no, you …

Short People Got Many Reasons To Live!

Wow, I have often bitched about my height before, but maybe, just maybe, there’s an advantage to being short in these times. It seems that taller people are at higher risk of getting Coronavirus. Finally, all these years of needing stepstools to reach things, needing to have my pants hemmed and needing to drag myself …