About a month ago, I was able to watch my son perform at his school in a student-run short production. This production was the first on-stage production since before the pandemic, so I was pretty excited. As I waited for fifteen minutes after the production for my son to finish the stage cleanup, I chatted […]
A Medical Mystery
June 13, 2022 by
What’s the opposite of a hypochondriac? Whatever it is, I think I am one. I had my annual physical this week, and my doctor has started giving me the lab requisition prior to my appointments, so we can discuss the results together. I have never had any issue with my lab work with one exception: […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Daily Glow-Up Edition
May 26, 2022 by
You’re already beautiful; the makeup is just for fun. This is what my friend Dan Thompson used to say, and it’s so true. Makeup, to me, is fun, but I have a small confession to make: I actually don’t feel like ME without makeup on. It’s not that I don’t believe that I’m beautiful without […]
Maybe She’s Born With It, Maybe It’s Maybelline; 111 Weeks In
May 2, 2022 by
Very frequently, of late, I have looked into the mirror and noticed what I thought was mascara smudged under my eyes. Each and every time, I try to remove the smudged mascara only to realize that it is not smudged mascara at all: it is just my skin, and that is how it looks now. […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Isolation Chamber Edition
March 24, 2022 by
Full disclosure: I had a very different Favourite Things planned for this month, but I decided to write a little about my experience with The Plague instead. You’ll just have to wait for Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Daily Glow-Up Edition! I’m sure you are all dying to know about my new favourite CC Cream; soon, […]
Marital Mismatches and Superpowers; One Hundred and Two Weeks In
February 28, 2022 by
It feels like I was JUST saying that February is tomorrow, and here we are, MARCH is tomorrow! February flew by; part of it was that it felt like Life Was Hectic, with wrestling tournaments and a new school semester and a five-day weekend thrown in for good measure, but part of it was that […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The I Choo-Choo-Choose Me Edition
February 24, 2022 by
I am obsessed with the song i by Kendrick Lamar. Do you know it? When he heard me playing it and singing along, my son told me that i is on The Greatest Hip Hop Album Of All Time, which I didn’t know, but which made me feel like this: Or maybe this: I would […]