YELLOW LYME
This is a blog about navigating personal identity and societal norms. I write about everything from health, motherhood and work, to appearance, class and prejudice. Yellow Lyme is about engaging, asking questions, and seeing things from multiple perspectives. Where one person will see a lemon, another will see a yellow lime. Enjoy your stay, visit often, invite along your favourite people, and write to me with your thoughts and ideas.
September 27, 2017
So a few weeks ago, I was in Sunny Supermarket buying some groceries. The lady in front of me realized she was $0.80 or so short for her order. So I told her I have change and tried to pay the balance. She was a little taken aback by my offer, promptly refusing and rem...
July 20, 2017
I've spent most of my life as an extremely logical and practical person. This will probably surprise a lot of people who know me because my life decisions often don't appear to make a lot of sense on the surface, and always appear to have come about quite spontaneously...
July 18, 2017
So sometimes I take on too much. I've been known to believe I have superpowers and then come crashing back down to earth when I burn out. And I've done this more than once.
Yet I've also been known to tell other people to take it easy, to acknowledge they have a lot g...
July 14, 2017
So some of you know I was raised as an Ismaili Muslim. Some of you also know I stopped identifying as one about 12+ years ago. Now this decision had nothing to do with the religion of Islam, with the faith of the Ismaili sect, or with the people within these communitie...
July 10, 2017
So, did armpits recently become a private part? Shoulders? Arms?
This past Friday on The Social, there was a discussion about professional dress codes after a female reporter was denied entry to the Speaker's Lobby by Congress because her sleeveless dress was not consid...
