Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
Why do women travel in groups? Um, the short answer? Men. If you’re still here, you want nuance and I’m proud of you. Because the truth is we can love a man and still not want to travel with men. What can I say, we’re complicated that way. It turns out there are a lot …
Are Americans welcome in Canada right now? Yes. Let me tell you why I’m the right person to answer that For the past fifteen years, half of my readers here have come from the United States, and I love that. I think many of you land here assuming I’m American, and honestly, on the surface …
Like so many Canadians, I have Irish ancestors. And like so many Canadians, I spent decades feeling vaguely, romantically connected to a country I’d never actually been to. Then Tourism Ireland invited me on a press trip and I ran, nay I Riverdanced my way to the airport. This Ireland road trip itinerary is what …
North Star Louisbourg is what I would do if I moved to Cape Breton Island to live out my dream as the hostess with the mostess. Well, almost. If I were a world-class designer married to another world-class designer, both of us with irresistible Scottish accents and enough money to buy a 20-bedroom oceanfront hotel, …
Gen X women are angry. Like, really angry. The rage has been building for decades, and this week it has a very specific face. Here’s why we’re done explaining it, and what we’re choosing instead. I’m angry. Like, really fluffin’ angry. Oops, did I just sub in “fluff” to make this more palatable? Silly me. …
A few months ago, I was driving in the car with the CBC playing in the background (like all good Canadians do, right?) when I caught part of an interview where a term I’d never heard before was mentioned: extinction of experience. I was close to my destination and didn’t have time to catch the …
Winters in Canada are long, and as such, our thoughts naturally turn to beach escapes to make life more bearable. I’m no exception to that rule, except I’ve learned over the years that the beach doesn’t need to be far and the time away doesn’t need to be long to break the monotony. Call it …
There is a certain orange neighbour to the south who delights in pretending Canada does not matter. He huffs, he puffs, he slaps tariffs on our goods, and thrives on chaos. After nine months of this nonsense, Canadians have shifted from alarmed to annoyed to done. We have reached the grey rock stage. Nothing he …
