I’m a big fan of food. I love to cook and bake, and I love eating out. One of the best things about My Prairie City is that we’re made up of so many immigrants that we have food from every corner of the world, and we’re so close to so many farmers you can eat local [...]
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I’m quite fair, and my relationship with The Tan has always been a little tenuous at best.
In the summer I’ll come home with pink arms and nose from walking to the bus, which will go on until August when I stop turning pink, my we-were-Ukrainian-peasants-working-in-the-fields-four-generations-ago genes kick in an I am suddenly washed over by [...]

Speaking of yesterday’s post, any haircut I survive relatively unscaled is a huge victory!
Before…
After…
I’m really enjoying the change & have banished my flat iron for a while. I’m not regressing if I’m rocking curly hair and straight bangs, am I?
Didn’t think so. It’s 80’s chic.

I’d had medium length hair for years. From grade seven on, I was shoulder length and by the time that grade twelve was over I was officially done with my old identity. I decided to take a year off school to recharge my batteries and enroll the next year with a totally new group of [...]
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