Easy like Saturday mornings
If you are anything like me, your favourite times of day are early mornings and early evenings. I like the fresh, unspoiled air of early morning, the way the sun, not yet reached full strength, casts buttery shadows up over the trees and through the many windows that wall-to-wall my new apartment. After waking, I … Read more
If threatening weather approaches, TAKE IMMEDIATE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
Tonight’s wild weather forecast is rather illustrative of my current emotional state: threat of thunderstorms, lashing hail and damaging winds may be on the agenda, and that’s fine with me. I rather feel like tucking in and curling up under the covers with a glass of wine, some feisty, herbed crackers, and a wheel of … Read more
baby steps, followed by explosives
“You can share my pole with me.” Contrary to what you’re thinking right now, I’m not referring to anything even remotely naughty. Rather, it’s an offering I heard one woman give to another, late one night back in November, when I was coming home around from the office. The bus was jam-packed—probably twenty to thirty … Read more
Déja vu all over again
Sorry for the lack of posting of late but for the past few weeks I have been ridiculously busy with both my day job and a virtual torrent of freelance work–fortunately it pays muchos dineros, but it also seems to leave me with little time for life. Add that to insurance junk, the madness of Hallowe’en and … Read more
Food for Thought
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” – Thomas A. Edison
Going Buffalo
It is widely known that many of the production farm-raised pigs, cows and chickens we ingest in the Western world may be contaminated with toxins that include antibiotics, pesticides, fertilizers, the result of the methods and conditions in which these animals are raised in many farm environments. They may be injected with hormones to make chickens grow faster or reproduce more frequently, to … Read more
Up Against Another Medicine Cabinet Wall
Have you ever had a PAP and felt like you were on display in the middle of a Shoppers Drug Mart? That’s the feeling when the walls of the medical clinic are parchment-thin and you can heard every.single.word exchanged between the nurse practioner, assisting medical students, doctors and other patients. How.uncomfortable. However, my relative embarrassment … Read more
Coconut & Carrot Jewel Cakes
Oh wow, am I ever glad I found the time to make some carrot muffins this weekend! These ‘muffins’, taken from a recipe on the Joy of Muffins site, are more cake-like than anything and are generously studded with toasted walnuts and coconut. The carrot and apple chunks give the muffins a very moist texture. I omitted the cream cheese frosting (though I’m sure it would have been scrumptious!) and did a few minor substitutions in the name of a healthier ’cake’. I substituted 1 cup of the all-purpose flour for a 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour and a 1/2 cup … Read more
