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(Spoiler alert: being a princess is not all it’s cracked up to be!) Nearly every little girl dreams of being a princess, and there are very few daddies who don’t play along. Living in a castle, wooed by dragon-slaying charming princes, eating what you want when you want, and having sleepovers with all the other…

Some wag, stapling together pieces of two Bible verses, has said, “A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, but a very present help in time of trouble.” As a race, we all lie, all the time, mostly of the “little white” variety, and often for innocent reasons. After all, are you going to be…

There was a bus route in Ottawa, back in the day, where the morning driver was a local hero. Not because of some dramatic event, but because he spent forty years doing what he was born to do, and doing it well. City buses back then were noisy, grimy, overcrowded, reeking of diesel and sweat….

Grumpy old men the world over insist that women get back into their proper place. Whether the Taliban, the mullahs, or MAGA, these misogynistic medieaval leftovers pine for a world where women know their place as providers of pleasure, domestic care, and offspring, and stop worrying their pretty little heads about more complicated stuff that…

There’s no moral to this story, except that life isn’t always random, and that there’s much to be said for following your intuition. The story is about a table, a very big, a very gorgeous table with a history, and with a destiny. We don’t know much about this table except that it can seat…

Guest article by Lewis S. Eisen If you run a business that has employees or customers, you actually produce a lot of rules. Whether you call them “policies,” “terms and conditions” or simply “instructions,” essentially they are rules for other people to follow, for example, you might send out instructions for preparation or information explaining…