Dear Internet-Diary, I am sorry that I have been awol for the past week, but it is because I have been gallivanting about most of Southern Ontario in cowboy boots. Here are some tangentially related tales selected from my assorted adventures. 1. Remember that time in the X-Files movie when Scully taught herself how to [...]

1. Cafe Audrey. What a fantastic place. 2. The Cute and Earnest Barista at Cafe Audrey. Oh, Cute and Earnest Barista at Cafe Audrey. How cute are you? Impossibly so. I have decided to add something to my list of summer projects: Foster an enormous crush on the Cute and Earnest Barista at Cafe Audrey. [...]

So, today I happened to find myself in Beverly Hills, in the vicinity of Los Angeles’ two warring cupcake bakeries, Sprinkles and Crumbs, which means that, clearly, I was obligated to have a cupcake for lunch. (Please note that I do not normally hang out in the neighbourhood of the rich and silicone-enhanced, but it [...]

I do not have the most patriotic of hearts. By which I mean, once summer rolls around, I am not necessarily the best at remembering a) what day it is right now, or b) the fact that it happens to be the birthday of the nation of my birth. But because I live a life [...]