Miss Bates 🇨🇦💨📚✍️
@missbates.bsky.social
aka Kay, reader, schoolmarm, spinster, Montrealer. Reluctant cook, inept walker. Retiring, but not retired. I support the right to be cold.
Thank you so much. People like you make the world better. You’re the best of America. ❤️❤️
December 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Thank you so much. People like you make the world better. You’re the best of America. ❤️❤️
Thank you so much. It shakes you up and asks “who are you?”, this disease.
December 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Thank you so much. It shakes you up and asks “who are you?”, this disease.
That’s the hardest, most humbling part. How often and much you fail at care-giving. Not feeling alone helps more than anything. You’re doing the most important thing to help, listening. I had friends, including online ones, who did that for me. It kept me sane & got me through the days.
December 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
That’s the hardest, most humbling part. How often and much you fail at care-giving. Not feeling alone helps more than anything. You’re doing the most important thing to help, listening. I had friends, including online ones, who did that for me. It kept me sane & got me through the days.
Thank you so much, Rohan, I’m glad to see you do the same. May we both have a peaceful year. Friends, books, meaningful work.
December 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Thank you so much, Rohan, I’m glad to see you do the same. May we both have a peaceful year. Friends, books, meaningful work.
Thank you very much. Visiting my mother in the care home has helped me realize how many families struggle with the same. I told the nurses they saved two lives when my mother was placed. I’m glad this worked out for your family too.
December 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Thank you very much. Visiting my mother in the care home has helped me realize how many families struggle with the same. I told the nurses they saved two lives when my mother was placed. I’m glad this worked out for your family too.
We are winter sloths.
December 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We are winter sloths.
Bingo, Rohan. Sadly, too much of the genre is thus.
December 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Bingo, Rohan. Sadly, too much of the genre is thus.
Thank you, Dorian, and all the best to your family in its new abode! May our year be peaceful, joyful, and full of the sustaining comfort of great books and films.
December 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thank you, Dorian, and all the best to your family in its new abode! May our year be peaceful, joyful, and full of the sustaining comfort of great books and films.
That would be The Other Guy.
December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
That would be The Other Guy.
I love the 14 beams projected from Mount Royal every year.
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I love the 14 beams projected from Mount Royal every year.
She was overwhelmed by the sight of 300 silent girls, grade 7 to 11. When she finished speaking, they all stood up. She’s an MP and gun control advocate. Impressive lady. Exactly my age.
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
She was overwhelmed by the sight of 300 silent girls, grade 7 to 11. When she finished speaking, they all stood up. She’s an MP and gun control advocate. Impressive lady. Exactly my age.
Separating the women from the men…
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Separating the women from the men…
It is still unbearably painful even after all these years.
December 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It is still unbearably painful even after all these years.
One of the survivors spoke at our school, a girls school, on the Monday after the anniversary.
December 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
One of the survivors spoke at our school, a girls school, on the Monday after the anniversary.
I can’t even drive by the Dec 6th memorials without bursting into tears. And remembering the slow, frozen climb to UdeM to the 14 white coffins. I was a McGill grad student at the time & in the MacLennan Library and ran into the snow when we heard about what was happening.
December 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I can’t even drive by the Dec 6th memorials without bursting into tears. And remembering the slow, frozen climb to UdeM to the 14 white coffins. I was a McGill grad student at the time & in the MacLennan Library and ran into the snow when we heard about what was happening.
We just commemorated Dec 6, anniversary of the Polytechnique shootings, Montreal massacre. Still devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
We just commemorated Dec 6, anniversary of the Polytechnique shootings, Montreal massacre. Still devastating.
Mary adorably looks like ET. 🫢
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Mary adorably looks like ET. 🫢
This is an English teacher’s nightmare. Great: the kids barely use their brains, let’s make sure they do so even less.
December 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is an English teacher’s nightmare. Great: the kids barely use their brains, let’s make sure they do so even less.
YOU HAVEN’T READ IT!? Do it NOW!!
December 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
YOU HAVEN’T READ IT!? Do it NOW!!