Winter Olympics start this week. Awesome! Curling is my jam. We've got Canada vs Czechia mixed doubles on Wednesday and Canada vs Norway mixed doubles on Thursday. So my lunches are all curling all week! #Olympics #Curling #TeamCanada #TrueNorth 🥌 🇨🇦

In honour of Catherine O'Hara, we watched our fave movie - A Mighty Wind - and sang our hearts out. Folk music needs to come back. It may be a mockumentary, but they wrote this one beautifully as a song of resistance and empowerment. #AMightyWind #CarherineOHara #FolkMusic

One of the best and funniest Canadian actresses. If you have never seen her work with SCTV, you're missing out. We watch the Dusty Towne Sexy Holiday Special every Christmas. Her comedic genius will be missed. Kevin!!! #CatherineOHara #SCTV #Beetlejuice #SchittsCreek #HomeAlone

Meet Priscilla, my first crocheted hyperbolic pseudosphere (brain coral). So much fun with this freeform - love changing shape on the fly. She's just the size of my palm (3 rows dc) but I want to go bigger and try out different increases and borders. 🧶 #crochet #FreeformCrochet

"The powerful have their power. But we have something, too – the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us." 🎤👏🇨🇦

My first bullion spiral. A really hard freeform #crochet stitch to learn but I will persevere. Need longer needles - the max I could comfortably stitch was a 12 wrap bullion. They're a little tornado-y looking - need to work on the shape, but they got better near the end. But fun! 🧶

Continuing my exploration of freeform #crochet. My stream of consciousness, use up yarn ends, try out new stitches circle is giving me feels of joy and calm. It's about 9" on the long side. Yeah, I know it looks like a fish. 🧶 #FreeformCrochet

This was a good reminder for me today as my overwhelm starts to drown me. When you feel like the world is on fire, make art. It's important, it's activism, and it's a release. #TEDtalk #WeNeedYourArt #ArtIsActivism #ArtIsWellness #ArtMatters

So many of these are alsoon my retirement list. A great animation and story - and I agree with the assessment of camping. #RetirementGoals #RetirementReality #NewYorker

Starting my freeform #crochet journey. Using up my stash of leftover yarns to practice stitches and just going with the flow with shapes and colour combinations. Going to keep adding to it as I explore freeform. 🧶 #FreeformCrochet #yarn #AbstractCrochet

Yes, the news is dark. You don’t have to stop feeling anger. But here’s one way to stop BECOMING the feeling. youtube.com/shorts/gWlVJ...

I feel so seen > "When I was 47, I started waking up every night at 3 a.m., suffused with anxiety. At the time, I thought I was falling apart. Not dealing well with life and The-Extremely-Stressful-State-Of-The-World." #menopause #MenopauseAnxiety #NoInstructionManual #WomensHealth

We watched this documentary that just dropped from TVO about #CFNY radio and it brought back so many memories. That radio station, its DJs and their exploration of #punk and #NewWave in the #80s, before anyone else in Toronto, influenced so much in my life. #TheSpiritOfRadio

My #crochet bag is blocked and I have all the pieces I need: lovely embroidered shoulder strap, d-rings, magnetic clasp, matching red zipper and my "Hand Made" label. My cable stitch game is fire. Now to convince my purple beardo to sew me a lining. 😁 🧶 #yarn #ILoveBags #BagAddiction #RedIsMyColour

Finished the satchel and blocking it. Excited to have the strap show up Wednesay so I can finish it off. Really enjoying making bags. #crochet 🧶

Read one news headline this morning and that's enough for me. Not worth ripping open the coccoon of self-love and wellbeing I've lovingly built up over the holidays. #2026IsLove #Wellbeing #BlockOutHate

I have never read Vanity Fair magazine, but I'm definitely going to pick up the January issue for the amazing photojournalism piece on the West Wing. #GreatPhotography #Photojournalism #VanityFair

Vanity Fair photographer Christopher Anderson explains how he made the portraits of Susie Wiles, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and other West Wing insiders: “I'm a professional noticer.”

A charcuterie board, Prosecco, my purple beardo at my side, and Pee Wee's Christmas Special streaming. A perfect Christmas brunch. Merry Christmas to all.

I always had an issue with Mary's non-George life. Why would life without him mean her eyesight deteriorated? One point about the article - that school's gym actually did have a pool and sliding floor. It was a big innovation. Watching this tonight - it's our traditional Eve movir, warts and all.

As I always say - Carol of the Bells is adapted from the #Ukrainian #Shchedryk from 1916. I still sing it today. "In 1936, the American composer Peter J. Wilhousky wrote English lyrics, adapting Shchedryk into the version familiar in West as the Carol of the Bells for an NBC radio performance."

"Total of 39 #Pride posts could be found on the main customer-facing Facebook, Instagram & X accounts belonging to Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Broadcom, Eli Lilly, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia & Tesla in 2023. 2024, the total fell 46% to 21 posts. 2025, it fell to 18, a 54% decline."

Finished the most complicated #crochet project I've tried so far - a cable design bag. Still need to cure and stretch it, but really happy with my first attempt at this complicated stitch. Next challenge I think will be Irish crochet.

Last night in Munich. We stayed for the Krampus run. And of course my beautiful purple beardo got pulled in by the parade photographer. #KrampusRun #Munich #DyeYourBeard #PurpleBeardo

Last night of Christmas markets in #Munich and we made it to the best one - the fairytale market at the Olympic Park. I said get me a #Prosecco. 6 Euro. So much dry goodness! #ChristmasMarkets #Travel

That's my beardo. Love him and his desire to make people smile. Kids and adults alike are stopping him on the street here in Munich to tell him how much they love his #purple beard and how happy it makes them. #DyeYourBeard

First time I've ever hurt myself while away on vacation. Going to a #hospital and getting stitches and cast on my arm in #Munich was a quick, efficient 3 hour experience. Great, helpful doctors and the follow-up antibiotics with no insurance were cheaper than in Canada with insurance. #Perspective

You know how sometimes you read a headline and think, this can't possibly be real. And then you realize oh yeah, this is today. #PeopleWhoDontGetFonts #TypographyHistory

At the music tent at the Tollwood Festival in Munich waiting for Getmany's best Ska band - #Bluekilla - to come on! #Tollwood #Munich

"HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon wrote: "... We remain committed to reversing harmful policies enacted by Levine and ensuring that biological reality guides our approach to public health."" #LGBTQ+ #TransgenderRights

A creative genius - he gave buildings movement and music, was my favourite architect and a great inspiration. Frank Gehry will be missed. #Architecture #FrankGehry

I've seen this scam ad several times. There is NO interview between CBC host Rosemary Barton and Prime Minister Mark Carney talking about cryptocurrency investment opportunities backed by the federal government. It's an AI scam. #AI #Cryptocurrency #Scam

My new pin stash and Batgirl keychain from the vendor market at the Toronto Burlesque Festival this weekend. Adding to my shiny pins collection #GRRRLSpells #PDWitch #ToxicRepose

IBS rears its ugly head and here I am, recuperating on the couch with the cats instead of heading out to the second night of the Toronto Burlesque Festival with the Dave. And he's dressed so snazzy tonight too! My gut hates me and the feeling is mutual.

Excited for the second night of the Toronto Burlesque Festival. Last night was fabulous and it was fun reliving the acts when I downloaded my photos at lunch today. #TBF2025 #burlesque

Watching the clear language session at Translating Europe Forum 2025. Love the keynote focus on clear language as an ethical choice and a right. #TEF2025 #PlainLanguage commission.europa.eu/translating-...

The snow is starting in Montreal and Toronto. Perfect time to hunker down and learn how to do cable stitches in #crochet. Had to frog at least 5 times before I had my a-ha moment and it all made sense. Eventually this will be a messenger bag. 🧶

My husband knows me and my #octopus #fetish so well. Got me a set of Christmas ornaments - Santa on his octopus sleigh! Oh yeah.

✝️ Thou shalt not feel obligated to create for all who request it of thee. Receiving a handmade masterpiece is an honor bestown on those deemed worthy 🧶🕊️✨ #YarnJesus

"The Gazelle Group, a major firm that specializes in sports coverage, including college basketball games and tournaments, asked that photographers provide them with an irrevocable, free license to use any photos taken at the credentialed event for any purpose whatsoever, except resale." #photography

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a new rule Friday making it mandatory for non-U.S. citizens, including Canadians, to take part in its facial biometrics program. The regulation takes effect Dec. 26. Photos taken of foreign travellers will remain on a DHS database up to 75 years.

Got to see David Byrne tonight on the first of two nights in Toronto. Fabulous! I missed his American Utopia show in NYC but watched it dozens of times on Disney+. This tour is almost the whole crew from Utopia but new set. Feeling so content right now. #DavidByrne #WhoIsTheSkyTour

Holy hell, I remember being a teenager in love with Robert Smith and so excited to see #TheCure at this show. And apparently my future husband was somewhere in the venue chilling to the tunes too. Future music legends performed in Mississauga 40 years ago | INsauga

Yes, yes, yes! Blue Jays are off to the World Series! ⚾️ #baseball #WorldSeries #LetsGoBlueJays

Public Enemy on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wow, what a great performance! #JimmyKimmel #BestTalkShows

"In January, the Canadian government said an estimated 3,600 citizens have listed "X" as their gender on their passports — an option that has been available to Canadians since 2019." Canada also lists it as "gender", whereas the US only acknowledges "sex" as an identifier.

Giving a shoutout to my friend's new store in Toronto. Fat Babes TO - a carefully curated collection of new and pre-loved Plus Size Clothing that believes in sustainability and accessibility. Who doesn't want that???

Looking forward to PeepshowTO's videogame-themed #burlesque show tonight. You gotta love Toronto for its #nerdlesque scene.

Well there we go. No more home mail delivery. #CanadaPost

My destress project is gaining momentum. Halfway to a comfy winter throw. #crochet 🧶