Still need Canadian help, but now I can accept it.

First, apologies to those who tried to comment on the last post and couldn’t. I accidentally checked a box that is now unchecked in the control panel, so please, Canadians, I still need your help. How can I, a nonvoter, help prevent a conservative majority? I don’t have a lot to say about the beginning …

What you almost missed

Hopefully I’ll have something more insightful to say about Australian culture after 3 weeks there. We leave tomorrow. I had hoped to entice a Francophone friend to take over the blog in my absence, to chronicle her attempts to get service in French at chain coffeeshops in NDG and Westmount (it’s funnier than it sounds), …

“New look, huh? That’s nice.”

Nothing like a quote from a Prince song to brighten your day. I took advantage of the loss of my old formatting and picked up a new WordPress theme called “NeoClassical” and customized it to my liking.  The coolest part is that the header image is selected randomly from a bank of images.  I’ve only …