We all like our food prepared a certain way. It’s usually the way we were served it when we were children. So if mum threw away the water veggies were cooked in, we do too. If meat was cooked to a crisp, that’s the way we like it. …

Is it me, or does everyone get pop-up articles on their phones about how crucial sleep is to their health, happiness, success, and longevity? The sleep police are alert and ready to remind us that if we don’t get at least 7+ hours of QUALITY sleep every night, we will…

Finding one’s purpose in life was never considered a thing until post WW2. Until then, life had been mostly a matter or survival. Just getting through it without a major disaster was considered a life well lived. If, along the way, you managed to get a decent education, find paid…

I haven’t been writing much lately because I contracted Covid in the last week in December, and getting out of bed in the morning has been the only activity I could actually manage. However, today while idly looking through an article on words and expressions that purists feel should be…

December 21, 2022 Today is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere and seems like a perfect time to start thinking about what’s happened since December 21, 2019. It doesn’t seem possible that we’ve lived through 3 years (3 years!) of uncertainty and difficult challenges, and the…

MISSING PEOPLE! December 18 How many Canadian citizens live abroad and why? Where are all the missing Canadians? Lots of interesting information out there about this state of affairs. The numbers last tabulated in 2016 ranged from 2.9 million to 5.5 million. The biggest problem to getting accurate statistics, of…

A used clothing story December 11 Recently, a Chilean friend told me that for a beautiful experience that touches the spirit, I should visit the Atacama desert, especially in spring. Also the dry air apparently makes viewing the billions of stars at night especially beautiful and breathtaking.

December 5 What is the LEAST expensive type of meat? What is the MOST expensive type of meat? The MOST expensive cuts of meat are in the middle of the picture. The ribs, the sirloin, and the fillet. The LEAST expensive cuts of meat are from the sides and the…

December 3 In 1592 Toyotomi Hedeyoshi invaded the Korean peninsula so that he could have a land route to China. His aim was to conquer the Ming Chinese. He was an interesting man with many accomplishments, not the least of which was his rise from being a peasant to being…