A Day Late and a Pancake Short
Free-FM’s commercial and imaging producer Rob brought a recipe to our attention and if hubby had his way he would ask me to make it every day. Â …
Personal Life
The Insurance Man Cometh
Just an update on my collision last Thursday.  Because the other driver is being a dickwad (at last check, anyway) my insurance company is telling me that I may have to accept 50% responsibility for a collision that was 0% my fault. I will not do that. …
Gitcher Motor Runnin’
Erin Davis wrote an excellent journal entry about the prevalence of motorcycle Mamas – and Papas – these days. Â With the World of Motorcycles Expo now underway this weekend, we certainly have riding on our minds.
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Vehicle for Sale
Going cheap: 2005 Xtrail. Deep green with tan leather interior. Dependable. Always starts in the dead of winter. Â Roomy. Low maintenance. Comfortable. Heated seats. Â All of the electric bells and whistles work. Clean. The only thing wrong is it’s CURSED! Â …
Blogger Blogs on Another Blog
Thank you to my friend Dan Brown for allowing me to post a guest article on his blog for Sun Media/Canoe. Â …
Ears The Problem
Last November I wrote about a hearing test I’d taken and the recommendation that I needed hearing aids.  I was pretty much resigned to the fact that I had to shell out many thousands of dollars for hearing aids and wear them for the rest of my life. …
Powder Room Pet Peeves
This week we talked on air about things that bug us when we share a bathroom with our significant other. Â …
Doctor Doctor
For the first time in many years I revisited a Doctor whom I have to say, I really don’t like. Â …
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. …
App Update
When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about a weight-loss app that was working for me, I heard from several people who were either going to give it a try or were already using it. Â …
Blissful Holiday
It goes so quickly doesn’t it? Â The trick is to enjoy it while you’re in it and on that count, it was a wonderful Christmas! Â …
The Battle of the Shopping Sexes
I don’t understand something about men. Yes, I’m generalizing. There are some men who love to shop but I haven’t met those men yet. Â So the men I’m talking about are the ones who hate it and love to hate it more than ever at this time of year. Â …
Finally: The Key
To weight loss, that is. I have been struggling with about 20 extra pounds for the past few years. Â I’ve lost 5 or 6 only to put on 8 or 9 and just couldn’t get control of the darn thing. Until my pal Jenn introduced me to My Fitness Pal. Â …
The Big Show’s Blackjack Giveaway
For the past few weeks we’ve been playing Big Show Blackjack on the air to qualify people for a trip for two to the MGM Grand in Vegas, all expenses paid including some gambling money. Â …
Defending Depressed Kids
Fascinating research out of the UK this week could have helped teens like me. If only I could take this discovery into the way-back machine. …
Be a Santa
It seems like everybody is asking for our help this time of year. Â I swear, if someone created a heartfelt ad about helping homeless leprechauns at Christmas I’d feel a tug on my heart and start gathering…whatever it is that those little mythical creatures need most. I’m a very easy mark and I don’t necessarily see that as a bad thing. Â …
Shopping Locally
My radio station launched an initiative as a response to the American Black Friday.  Called Shop Local (yeah, grammatically it ought to have been locally, I know) Blackburn Radio created Blackburn Thursday and Friday.  Our announcers blanketed the city and broadcast live from dozens of local businesses. …