Is it my imagination, or is every meal now being served in bowls?
I’m no foodie, and my unsophisticated palate can hardly be considered discerning, but I have noticed that bowls are no longer reserved for soup and cereal. They’re...
The night before our return home from Las Vegas, was
spent being tourists on the strip.
For months, I had looked forward to seeing the famous Bellagio fountains, so we ventured
over there to catch the...
A little more than a year ago, I watched a movie on Netflix, quite by accident. It was
a documentary called The
Magic Pill and it was about diet, specifically the ketogenic way of
eating.
Here’s the...
This may be an issue only a woman can understand. Men
may sympathize or even offer suggestions, but unless you’ve been forced to walk
in circles or jump in place in the middle of a crowd, the magnitude of...
I have a friend, an extrovert of the highest order, who
will talk to a stranger anywhere, anytime; on an escalator, in a doctor’s
waiting room, at the checkout line, in the stands at the ball park.
Although it’s not a store I visited frequently, I felt a pang of regret when Sears filed for bankruptcy, and that pain worsens around the Christmas season.
It’s not that it wasn’t expected. The company had suffered a long and...
As Canadians usher in the holiday season, we have much to be thankful for. While many places in the world are in turmoil, we enjoy relative prosperity and comfort. Despite the less-than-ideal economic conditions, Canada, and especially Nova Scotia,...
Grandma and grandpa used to have this huge, brown, floor-model stereo. It was right smack in the middle of their living room, and next to it, right under the bin of Nana Mouskouri 8-track tapes, sat a small vinyl...
I have never been able to understand what Ivanka Trump is doing hanging around the white house - sorry, not sorry. She has been mostly mum on the issues she claimed to be so passionate about before the Trump...
I found a half-price sale on-line just before Christmas and ended up buying my husband a Google Home device. It’s basically an electronic brain, I kid you not, and I am completely taken by it.
I’m not usually a sucker...