6 Reasons Why I Don’t Wear Makeup
Reason #1: It’s expensive. The average woman will spend about $13,000 on makeup in her lifetime or about $200 a year. If I instead invested that $200 a year, assuming a 6% compound interest rate, I’d...
View ArticlePoverty Museum
I recently re-visited our local natural and world history museum and was struck by what narrow slices of history were up for public viewing. Imagine if our society was only shown through the homes and...
View ArticleDoes Privilege Corrupt Us?
There is a short reading assignment for this post: Can Men Be Feminists? To summarize the author’s points: (although I strongly recommend reading it for yourself. My understanding may differ from what...
View ArticleYou Are Not a Guru
I really don’t like wearing it but I have to do it… she said with a soft sigh. Somehow the conversation had tumbled into all of the stuff women do to look presentable – high heels, makeup, shaving....
View ArticleHaircuts vs. Human Rights
Faith McGregor walked into the Terminal Barber Shop on Bay St. in June to get a haircut…Shop co-owner Omar Mahrouk told her his Muslim faith prohibits him from touching a woman who is not a member of...
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