Animals are People Too
Two aspects of human life puzzle me: Killing purely for sport and eating any type of meat a person can get their hands on. Â …
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General
Shop at Home
This weekend I’m going on a cross-border shopping excursion. I very rarely do this. Â Sometimes when we pop over the border to visit with our good friend Eddie I make Derek stop at Target so I can get Downy Wrinkle Releaser (not sold in Canada) and stroll the aisles but that’s about it. Â …
Ten Smartphone Habits to Avoid
This list comes from columnists at CNN.  Some are realistic and some are not, says me. …
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True Love
After 14 years together Derek’s cousin Kim, whom we adore, and her wonderful partner Jeff, tied the knot. …
Ms. Fix-It
Having just recently repaired small holes in a wall and rolled on a fresh coat of paint I was amused by a list I found of everyday items you can substitute for specialty products, like wall filler. …
Full Service
Yesterday I tweeted about the kid at the gas station who filled up my tank. He was chatty and it turns out that he is a fan of Free-FM. No one disputed that – our station is terrific – but there was some humour regarding the full service gas station. …
My Phone the iPhone
I still hate my iPhone. Oh I love a lot of things it can do or I wouldn’t have it but I despise the keyboard. I’ve been an iPhone gal for a few years now and I’m still not used to the onscreen keyboard and I make a lot of mistakes I never made with the Blackberry.  Touching actual buttons makes the difference. But I can’t give up its other features so here I am, the reluctant iPhone user. …
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Moving On
No one forgot 9/11 yesterday. Â The firefighters memorial in London was my second story all morning after the latest on a Personal Support Worker accused of beating a 12-year-old boy nearly to death. Â 11 years after the terrorist attacks they are still very much on everyone’s minds. Â …
Dumb True Story of the Week
Thanks once again to the This is True newsletter for bringing this to my attention. Â Story written by Randy Cassingham. It illustrates the insanity of zero tolerance on some issues and the overbearing nature of the “nanny” approach to, well, to just about everything except being a nanny. …
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Honouring Nagui Morcos
Sobering thoughts for a Sunday. Â Mr. Morcos was a happily married man of 54 who took his own life this spring. Â He had Huntington’s disease and having watched his father deteriorate with the progressive illness he knew, and he had told those he loved, that he wasn’t going to experience the same fate. Â …
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