“The electric eel got me just behind the ear and for a second or two I had no vision or hearing”…
Source: Obstacle racing pulls plug on electrical shocks...
Fingertips drumming the steering wheel, head bopping to the beat, lips syncing the words — you’ve seen her before. She’s the woman driving down the highway, so enraptured in song; she’s oblivious to the amused car poolers around her.
Source: Song in your heart good for...
I loved Olive Kitteridge. The book, by Elizabeth Strout, was so beautifully written and recently my husband and I watched the HBO mini-series, which was also brilliantly done. Melancholy musings of life in a small town in Maine, the series captures the essence of the...
Kelowna-Lake Country MLA, Norm Letnick, may be the Minister of Agriculture, but he holds regular free health forums aiming to keep his constituents informed and motivated to lead healthy and happy lives. It was standing room only at his latest forum featuring Healthy Joints, where...
Most mornings I journal but today, as I curled up on my couch, hot cup of coffee in hand and reached for my familiar spiral-bound book, its cover took my breath away. Devastated by yesterday's deadly attacks on the French capital, I yearned to express...
I have to admit, I wasn’t overly intrigued by the premise of this book by Elizabeth Strout: a retired teacher deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine yet fails to recognize changes in the people around her, including her husband and only...
Before it was a movie, it was the funniest book I've ever read. A departure from what is often a literary lineup for the Ladies on Literature, This is Where I Leave You is a romp of a read.
When Judd Foxman’s father dies, he leaves...
It was a dark day in Philly when, in the home of brotherly love, a child-like Canadian celebrity was killed.
HitchBOT, the traveling robot that thumbed its way across Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany, met an untimely demise in the good old U.S. of A on...
I couldn't help but note my fellow Patriot in the American airport. His black t-shirt emblazoned with bright red, capital letters proudly announcing CANADA caught my eye. Since an article I read in the Globe and Mail suggesting wearing our maple leaf when we travel...