A budget exists and can actually work, I promise. — I’ve a giant pet peeve…well, true to my grumpy old man persona, I have about a million giant pet peeves. Here’s the one I’m fired up about today: why does every single renovation show on HGTV spend more money than they really need to? Like Holmes exclusively buying the most…

If you’ve ever been to Paris before, chances are you were annoyed with a few things in Emily in Paris. It was such a classic rude American abroad story that I couldn’t help rolling my eyes at the stupidity. …

Social Media has Become Exhausting and So Not Worth the Effort Recently, I’ve taken a step back from social media. It’s just not giving me what I want, anymore. It’s causing me more stress than it’s worth, so I’m taking a break. Don’t worry, I’m still creeping on everyone’s photos…

Trying to make it as a writer is one of the most exhaustive things here on this lovely place we call Earth. It’s even more exhausting, now. Before, you would submit your stories to magazines, newspapers, and journals, submit your manuscripts to publishers and that would be it. You’d work…

Yesterday, I felt completely exhausted. I hadn’t been sleeping well in almost two weeks, waking up in the middle of the night once or twice. Pair that with the fact that our furnace wasn’t working properly, thus making the house a chilly 16 degrees, I didn’t want to do anything…

Canada has had a weird hard-on for China for years. We figured we would jump into bed with China, trade would flourish, and we’d be living happily ever after. Unfortunately, that’s not, exactly, how things panned out, surprising to no one but each prime minister who thinks it’ll work. With…

And, nothing happened. Like most of those who open the Medium app, I’m accosted with posts talking about making $5,000 or $10,000 a month on Medium. There are people making bank, and they’ll fill you in on the secret to making bank, too! Like an idiot, I click on these…

Why is it that everyone wants to write about Paris? That artists, both from Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds to Jay Z and Kanye West, flock to the area? Is it the artistic glamour that is found all over the city? The calm that washes over you as you sit in…

Blame Covid — A month back my husband and I hunkered down to watch an action movie. We hadn’t watched a movie in a good long while, as we’ve been too preoccupied with bingeing shows. I was excited as I love all things action. Then, a really horrible part came, and an animal…