I Am (A Frozen) Canadian
I am a good Canadian but I still reserve the right to bitch about the cold! Â …
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Inspiring a Love of Reading
We are quick to criticize politicians when things aren’t going well. Â Today I want to commend one for doing something right. Â …
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Brandt’s Randt – The Ikea Monkey
The tug-of-war over the Ikea monkey is so cut and dried to me that I can’t believe court time is being wasted on it.  And it’s the subject of this week’s Brandt’s Randt. …
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Getting Ahead of the News
This happens far too often.  Journalists make assumptions and they ought not do it. …
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A Big Ham
Hubby loves spiral ham. Â He has wanted me to pick one up for a while now but I’ve been holding out because they’re so huge and there are only two of us. Plus, they’re twenty bucks and up and you’re paying for a bone! Â …
Another Twitter Winner
Still unsure about the value of Twitter? My (free) account paid for itself last week by reuniting me with an old friend. Â …
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Thanks for Nothing, London
To say I was gobsmacked by a proposal from City of London staff would be an understatement. …
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A Little of that Human Touch
2013 has its first viral photograph.  And it’s a picture of something that happened in 2012, specifically, the birth of a baby last October. …
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A World Where a Yellow Light is a Red Light
It sounds like an April Fool’s Day prank but I can assure you, it’s real.  Drivers in China have been told to treat a yellow traffic light the same as a red.  Instead of yellow meaning a warning that red is coming and to stop if you can safely do so, they’re expected to stop immediately upon a yellow. …
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Twitfest of 2012
Twitter is so much fun. I love it for networking, for catching up on articles I may have missed that someone else thinks to tweet and for exercising the latent part of my psyche that would have loved to try my hand at comedy. Â To wit, I present some of my own, original favourite tweets of 2012 and then some of my favourites of people I follow and admire. Â …
2012: The Year in Review
By far, the best thing we did this year was to adopt Spice.  After so much hemming and hawing and hesitation we acted at the right time and got the right cat. We got our cat and he’s a little love of our lives. …
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Santa’s Selfless Helpers
This happened on Saturday and it was going to be my Saturday blog post until the tragedy in Connecticut shook everything up. Â Â …
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