HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21) According to researcher Nick Watts and his documentary film The Human Footprint, the average person speaks more than 13 million words in a lifetime, or about 4,300 per day. But I suspect and hope that your output will increase in 2021. I think you’ll have more to say than […]
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Gay dream believer
QI’m wondering if you can help me with some dream interpretation. If it helps for context, I’m a single 29-year-old gay man. For just about as long as I can remember, I’ve been having mildly unsatisfying sex dreams in that the dreams never seem to lead to sex itself. My dream partners range from people […]
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In your horoscope: Use the power of mistletoe
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21) I’m envisioning a scene in which you’re sitting on a chair at a kitchen table. At the centre of the table is a white vase holding 18 long-stemmed red roses. The rest of the table’s surface is filled with piles of money, which you have just unloaded from five […]
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The curious case of the come in the casserole
QSomething is bothering me, and I don’t know where else to turn. I’m a bisexual man. I’ve been married to a great guy for the past six years. Despite COVID-19 we gathered safely for an outdoors American Thanksgiving dinner with my family. My mom, my brother and sister-in-law, and my adult nieces and nephews and […]
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Losing out in love and spelling (and Winnipeg)
QI’m a lesbian and my girlfriend is bi. I’ve read your column and listened to your podcast for a long time, Dan, and I always thought I’d be fine with having a partner ask me about being monogamish. Then my girlfriend of about a year and a half told me she wants to see what other […]
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In your horoscope: You’ll feel unfamiliar emotions
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21) “Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked,” observed Sagittarian author Jane Austen. She wrote this confession in a letter to her niece, Fanny, whose boyfriend thought that the women characters in Jane’s novels were too naughty. In the coming weeks, I encourage you Sagittarians to […]
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Home (delivery) for the holidays
Turkey & all the fixin’s The Esquire Restaurant You don’t have to wait for the holidays—roast turkey is on the menu all year long. Full plate with sides for $16. esquirerestaurant.ca Kitchen Door Catering A two-person meal with turkey or ham, sides of potatoes, green beans, carrots and cranberry bread pudding, with apple crisp or […]
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How to have the best virtual cocktail party of the year
1 Plan ahead First, pick a platform. By now you probably know about Zoom, Facetime and Google Hangouts. As host, consider upgrading to a paid account to allow for extra time and more features. Plan your date and time, accounting for the time zones of everyone you want to invite. Then send out an invitation […]
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Keep Halifax weird
There’s nothing like a crisis for making clear what matters most. “What’s really important is for all of you to support your local businesses,” premier Stephen McNeil told the province earlier in our coronavirus-shaped crisis. “Think local, buy local, support local. That makes us Nova Scotia strong and Nova Scotia proud.” McNeil nailed it, and […]
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Here for the holidays
Elizabeth Simms knows this holiday is going to be a hard one. Travel restrictions, self-isolation requirements and gathering limits mean more of us than ever will be celebrating the season solo—and, as the registered psychotherapist who runs a private practice in Dartmouth says: “The pandemic is such a huge thing, it’s so big that it […]
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How to get a handle on the booze blues this holiday
One good thing about big social gatherings being cancelled this holiday season is you’re gifted the absence of morning-after booze blues. You can look forward to no longer agonizing over every minute detail you shared with a quasi-acquaintance at your friend’s work holiday party the second you wake up. Nor worrying whether you spoke too […]
