Ordinary Canary

It is a sad and busy season for me, so I have not been updating much.  It’s Christmas, which has actually been going better for me than any other Christmas that I can remember, but is also a sad season because it’s just about a year after my mom’s death.
So, to avoid the bigger issues, [...]

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New York is being blanketed with her first snowstorm. This is particularly appropriate timing, since I spent yesterday hanging up holiday lights for the first time in my life. I’ve never had an outside to decorate before, but now that I have a house, the situation has changed. I even wrenched my [...]

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I work as a women in a field where there are practically no visible women. The phrase “tech guy” is pretty widely used in the world, which is all the proof I’m giving you of this problem. (Yes, it’s a problem.) It’s pretty common that people that I work with professionally presume [...]

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Does anyone else find the genderization in this advertisement by AT&T extremely bizarre? The cell phone is one of the most universal gadgets that I think I’ve ever seen. It’s a phone. It makes calls. Some of them download your e-mail.
So I’m at a bit of a loss as to what [...]

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