Swine Flu Fears
The swine flu doesn’t scare me! …
April 2009
Freedom
Enjoy it while it lasts. How many times have we heard that? …
Pop Culture Musings
My media brethren really must put the brakes on the significance of Susan Boyle’s talent to…insert analogy here. …
There’s No People Like Show People
The old adage is so true that you have to walk a mile in someone’s shoes to understand what they go through.  …
Show-offs
I’ll be at the Green Living Show on the Ex grounds Saturday and Sunday, as part of the team showing the Zero electric motorcycle. …
Bullied by Teens
I had just started down my street to go get my doggie pal Echo for a walk when some idiot kids in a passing vehicle tossed a full pop can at me, narrowly missing me, and spraying me with ginger ale. The can struck the sidewalk as I fixed my eyes on the speeding car (and heard the cackling from within) and repeated the license plate number out loud, over and over, until I could get my Blackberry out of its holster and write the number down. …
Disco Here, Disco There
Disco week on American Idol brought me a lot of joy! …
Shopping News
Lots of news on the retail front in London. My favourite go-to mall is being reborn as a mixed-use building, mostly because of the reasons it’s my favourite. It’s almost always nearly empty. …
Jamaican Adventure
I wasn’t at all surprised to hear that Canadians were being held hostage aboard a jet in Jamaica. I loathe that island and tell everyone who asks that they should go somewhere else for their vacation. …
More Grammatical Infractions
I was on a slow drive to nowhere for a while yesterday morning. …
Spreading my Freelance Wings
How delightful to wake up to my feature on wedding trends published in today’s London Free Press. http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/BusinessMonday/2009/04/20/9170951-sun.html …
House Proud – Check Out The Sites. Toronto Sun
If we’re going to take any lesson from the housing collapse in the U.S., it’s got to be a resolve to be better informed. The market is flooded with first-time buyers lured into taking on mortgages by low interest rates and special incentives. And whether you’re dipping a tentative toe into the land-owning ocean for the first time or diving in headfirst for the tenth, there’s always something to be gained by learning from the experiences of others. …
Doe A Deer, A Female Deer…
A drop of golden sun lured four of us to ride motorcycles out to Arkona to conduct a bit of business on Thursday. Three bikes, four people, beautiful conditions. It’s what riding is all about. …
Personal Responsibility
Oh this is rich. But let me first say that this is not a rant against men. It’s a rant against two men. Two rich, egomaniacal, self-centred and overly pampered men who believe they do no wrong. Now that that’s on the record…. …
Suckered In
Listening to Tucker and Taz on the FM96 morning show the other day, they yakked about a photo on their webpage of a wee tree that supposedly grew in a Russian man’s lung. …
Antiquated Anchors
I was shocked this week by the number of broadcast and print outlets that used a sexist approach to describe the death in Afghanistan of yet another Canadian soldier. …
Polar Bear Feeds on Stupid Woman
You may have seen the headline, Woman Attacked By Polar Bear! My goodness, I thought. Was she just walking down the street , minding her own business when a crazed polar bear hopped off his stool at Starbucks abandoning his half-caf latte and darted after her, attacking her for no reason? No, of course not. For one thing, polar bears prefer cappucinos to lattes. For another, the woman was in the wrong. …
Whither The Bee?
What has happened to the humble bumblebee? …