Halloween is this Saturday, so here is a little Halloween humour to get you in the mood! What do skeletons say before they begin dining? Bon...

Have you looked at the calendar lately? if you haven't take a look at the date at the top of this post. Yup, It's October 25. So wha...

My maternal grandmother was a home economist. She had graduated in 1920 and worked with her agricultural rep husband to teach farm couples b...

Love them or hate them, big box stores are a part of our urban landscape. We love them cause the prices are lower and we can get almost an...

I think my PC is out to get me. Over the last while, I've been noticing little things. Like when I am trying to type and I know how to s...

Here in Canada, the second Monday of every October is Thanksgiving. I decided that I wanted to make something a little different for a holid...

At some point, we have all been overcharged by a store or a business. I'm not talking about sky high prices on items we know are actuall...

25 years ago today I moved to Winnipeg. I'd been born and raised in the country and lived in a couple of small towns as a young adult, b...

H1N1 was formerly known as "Swine Flu". The new name was given since there is no real threat to humans who come in contact with pi...

For the last week or so, I have been hearing the Canada Geese honking as they begin their fall migration to the south. There is a hint of c...

It's mid September and that means that it is time to start rolling out all the new series and the returning shows. When I was younger, t...

This is one of my favourite cookie recipes! It is perfect for school/work lunches and it freezes well. Like most of my recipes, this delicio...

Continued from September 1 , 2009 and September 5 , 2009 Art, Music and French were optional after Grade 9. I dropped them all. Art wasn...

continued from September 1 , 2009 My first elementary school science teacher was tough. He really didn't like explaining things twice. H...

Forty five years ago this fall, I started school. I could have started the year before, as my birthday was right near the cutoff point for t...