May 2013

Brandt’s Randt – Come on Science! Get it Together.

Full disclosure: I dye my hair.  But if hair colouring was outlawed tomorrow I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. I think about letting it go natural all the time. I don’t because I don’t want to endure the potentially awful growing-out process.  One day I will. Probably when I’m not a public figure anymore.   …

House Proud – Wallpaper is Back in a Big Way, Sun Media

When you think of wallpaper, you might get a mental picture of a busy floral print that looks a lot like antique upholstery fabric. Perhaps the smell of lavender and musty books comes to mind with a musical accompaniment counted in by Lawrence Welk. Ah-one-anna, two-anna. Well it’s time to associate a new image with wallpaper because it’s back in a big way. …

Story of the Week

It wasn’t the provincial budget and the b.s. antics by all involved. It wasn’t the fact that there will now be an Integrity Commissioner governing the Code of Conduct at London City Hall. No, what affected me most this week was the story of the franken-fish.  …