Since summer I've been heading out to a small local historical village in a former farming community (now a bedroom community of Toronto) every few weeks on an irregular schedule to teach their volunteer dance troupe some dances appropriate to the period. The schedule has been irregular because the volunteer group meets fortnightly, and because my ( Read more... )

The Rapscallion and I were at his counsellor's, for a sort-of relationship post mortem. I sat on the daybed, as he talked about how things are different with YankeeLady and how there was "nothing wrong with our relationship that couldn't have been fixed."*

I lost my temper.

"I'm glad, then, that you valued the relationship, and me, enough to, you ( Read more... )

Via Feministing, the Biting Beaver's truly upsetting account of her attempt to acquire a prescription for the Emergency Contraception Pill on a Saturday in rural Ohio. Notwithstanding that the ECP is essentially a higher dose of the hormones in the standard birth control pill, that it will be available throughout the US without prescription come ( Read more... )