What Would Phoebe Do?

Inspired by Miss Self-Important's post on game-changers, but with guiltily-confessed prices in CAD: Obviously: Acca Kappa lip balm:...

Twice recently I've seen the stroller come up in things I've read. Most recently, there was a New York Times op-ed , ostensibly abou...

The New York Times has a guide called "How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last." It's in the Climate section, and so has a ...

For reasons relating to nursing, I'm on a no-dairy diet for the foreseeable (nursing) future. Yes, I'm now one of those people. What...

When I first thought about "weaning" I imagined a situation where yes I'd still be nursing, but if something came up - say, if...

At the supermarket checkout just now, I saw a magazine cover headline suggesting that readers stop dieting but still lose weight . An eterna...

It had been a while since I'd left Toronto, and an opportunity popped up to go to Montreal (as I'd been meaning to do again, since m...

This is a good old-fashioned what-a-silly-article blog post. So let me be clear: I don't think its author is a Bad Person, and yeah, th...

When I was 11 - and I remember the age exactly, because of friend-group fluctuations and which friend this was - my best friend at the time ...

It can be challenging in the beginning. That much is admitted even by breastfeeding proponents, but what "challenging" meant rem...

So I (mostly) love where I live, but it's too small, or will be, and yeah. But I'm a millennial, which means I've spent all my m...

The verdict is given at the six-week appointment: Are you back to normal? Your normal, not Gisele's, but both may seem similarly implaus...

-House-leaving. Including baby classes, meet-ups, whatever it is one does, and I have some promising leads on that front but am open to more...

Hello again, reader(s), from the other side. Necessary short version: All is well! Baby is great! Blog will remain my own holdings-forth and...

Hello, this time from one day past my due date. This means, I suppose, that the end is in sight. Also that I feel as though I should be offe...

And done . Thanks to some tremendous achievements in the field of not getting out much (except over the weekend, when a modest neighborhood-...

Hello from the land of too pregnant to teach. I am not, shockingly, too pregnant to Netflix. Decided to go with "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,...

Every trimester has its theme. The first: disbelief. Was I really pregnant? Was I really pregnant? Really? When not frantically fear-googlin...

Isn't it sad when a new mother has to pay her nanny (wild how nannies expect payment), and the nanny budget dips into the designer-cloth...

As best as I can tell, pregnancy has two phases: the bit where it's hard to know if the whole thing is real, and the one where it's ...