Back on the Radio After All These Years
It’s true. I’m doing morning news again! This week, I’m on 94.1 myFM St. Thomas.
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Misbehaving Students Choose Their Fate in Maine
School is out still, of course. But teachers I know are always in low-key planning mode, no matter the month. I stumbled up on an idea that seems better than a time-out and might be worth considering.
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Brandt’s Rant Returns: Hockey Trial Fallout
I’m bringing it back. Brandt’s Rant will appear occasionally on this page again. It’s something I used to do on the radio. Once again, I feel compelled to revive it.
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Book Two, Now Out in the World
Last Sunday was release day for my second book in the Felicity and Mitzi series: Threads of Love.
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Fixing the News With a News Fix
We have just come out of another heat alert. It was humid and hot and wildfire smoke just added to it.
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Keeping Money Moving for All Our Sakes
I don’t like to say I hate anyone. Hate is an awful word. But if I had to apply it to a group, I’d put it on billionaires.
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The Noise in Our Heads
The popularity of weight-loss drugs has revealed something so universal to some of us and unknown to others: food noise.
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A Piece of the (Colourfully Painted) Rock
Here’s another reason why I have no interest in living in the 51st state. We Canadians can still afford eggs.
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We’re Number One Where We Don’t Want to Be
Welcome to the Measles Capital of the World!
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Judge My Book by Its Cover
I’m deep in the throes of imposter syndrome. I know novelists who make their living from the sales of their books, so who am I to write one?
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Back to the Future with NDGT
Whenever someone predicted the end of the Internet, I’d wave it away as ridiculous.
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2025 Greetings and News
Does anyone else have the haunting strains of Zager and Evans’ only hit song in their head? 2025 is 500 years away from In the Year 2525, which went to #1 in 1969. But it can’t help but come to mind for those of us raised on pop music. This particular song was pretty dark so it cut through alongside peppy tunes of its time like Sugar, Sugar and I Can’t Get Next To You. (For a refresher, the video is at the end of this post.)
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Oil and Water = iPhone and Android
Will the information here today change your life in a fundamental way? Not likely. Is it interesting and possibly a factoid you can bring up in small talk at a Christmas party? Sure!
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One Special Day to Celebrate Men
How did you mark International Men’s Day? I’m betting you didn’t even know it happened.
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23 and (no longer) Me
A year and a half ago, I wrote about having our DNA analyzed by 23 and Me. It was a fascinating experience and we made some surprising discoveries. Among them, that I have a little Italian and Ashkenazi Jew DNA. I’m 2% Neanderthal, which is average. And Derek is a descendant of Alexander Hamilton.
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At My Post Behind the Virtual Counter
I’ve always wanted to open a store. It’s an ongoing joke that I squirrel things away for the store that I don’t have! But I have culled my “inventory” down to the essentials since moving several times in the last five years or so.
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A Jaunt to Southern Georgian Bay
The wonderful woman who has been acting as my fiction Book Agent suggested that I attend an event for authors in Collingwood. Knowing good advice when I hear it, I got tickets for Derek and me and we made a getaway of it.
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Inside Some Innovative Housing Solutions
Last week at the Canada Awards for Excellence, a panelist told us about how difficult it has been to get an affordable housing project off the ground.
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