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September 11, 2009

Health care in Canada: Thank god I don’t live in the States

I have to say, I just don’t get the health care debate in the States at all.  The only thing I can think of is that social media and media in general has allowed the lunatic rightwing fringe in the US to whip up a propaganda storm around this issue that is stopping any momentum [...]

June 25, 2008

Dye Jobs or die jobs. When hair colouring goes drastically wrong

Tessa: Recently I had the misfortune of allowing my hairdresser to have her way with me. I pointed at several pictures I had brought along as proof of where I wanted to go and showed them to her. Here this is what I want. Look. This is what I need. Not too brown, give me [...]

June 25, 2007

Waiting in a waiting room

Dave: I’m sitting in a waiting room, waiting for Tessa to get her results from her mole biopsy. I’ve waited in waiting rooms before and I fucking hate it. I hate it more this time than any other time, I’m scared.
I flick through the pages of a magazine not really seeing anything. I try to [...]

November 16, 2006

YouTube: How Love Grows

Tessa: I’m not sure what happened to our date nights but they are definitely changing from Dave and I staring wildly, passionately and intently into each other’s eyes to each of us staring with all of the above adverbs into our dog Reuben’s eyes to staring eight hours straight into the eyes of YouTube. But [...]

October 3, 2006

On Being a Sissy

Tessa: Hello. My name is Tessa and I am a sissy. Sometimes you know something about yourself and you deny it. Sometimes you just don’t know. In this case I really know. One of my favourite sporting activities is chasing Dave around the house, wrestling him to the ground, pinning his arms above his head [...]