Articles

31 Mar
Shaking hands with Richard Wagamese

I often feel I walk this path of writing alone, but Richard Wagamese helped me (and so many aspiring writers he mentored), believe we are bonded through the written & spoken word....

01 Mar
Facts & Truths about Losing the Boozing

In the spirit of those who have gone before me, detoxing their livers by ditching their drinks, I’m going to toast my monumental effort with a nightcap—err, I mean a recap—of what I have learned from a month without alcohol....

18 Feb
Baking and (no) Booze…they go together

I might be the only person who has lost the booze this month but gained weight. A dozen coconut cupcakes have come from my oven and I'm licking icing from my fingers in order to write this....

03 Feb
February Freeze: Putting the Ice on Alcohol

One of my BF's said, "I'll eat my hat if you do it!" I told her to take out her brightest toque with the biggest pom-pom because it's on: the February Freeze. Commiserate as I chronicle my journey....

25 Jan
Song in your heart good for your brain

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...

How Hockey Saves Saul

Wrought with loneliness, quietly drowning in despair, Surely Richard Wagamese's protagonist, Saul, would have died at St. Jerome's if not for the salvation of the good, old hockey game. Father Leboutilier brings a little light and humor to St. Jerome's but above all, he brings hockey....

Eat Like a Caveman

Eat like a caveman Subscriber Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:00 Shannon Linden The Paleo, or Caveman diet currently tops the list of trends in do-it-yourself weight loss programs. I'm grateful to live in modern times, when I don't have to send my husband out to...