To keep entropy low and to stay on top of things during the year, it’s critical we have a reliable system to fall back on. While every student has their unique way of organizing their work space and meeting deadlines, I’ve noticed that certain survival tips have remained unchanged despite the ever-changing dynamics of being… Read more »
If you live to write or love to sing, then you’ll treasure writing ditties. And if you ever wrote a winning essay, you could be filthy rich writing lyrics. As a teen, I’d scrawl several songs a day—mostly when I felt glum. But my hillbilly voice constrained my song writing. I could scarcely sing outside… Read more »
ENGL 308 (Indigenous Literature in Canada) is a three-credit, upper level English course that begins with the origins of Indigenous literature in the oral tradition and leads to contemporary Indigenous writing in English. The course also examines related areas such as findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), released in 2015. The assigned readings… Read more »
Dear Barb: My wife is driving me crazy! She wants to get a cat and we already have two dogs. Our dogs are both getting older and I was looking forward to being able to travel without having to find someone to take care of our animals. We have a camper so we can take… Read more »
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Alice Ball was a chemist who developed a treatment for leprosy involving the injection of chaulmoogra oil. Dr. Harry T. Hollmann, who had been working with leprosy patients, sought out Ball when he discovered her thesis entitled “The Chemical Constituents of Piper Methysticum”. Hollmann was working with chaulmoogra oil as a treatment for leprosy, and… Read more »
My dogs are Husky Shepherd crosses. I have had them since they were old enough to leave their mom, and now they are over 9 years old. Over the years I have learned a lot from them. One being no matter how fenced in it seems you are, there is always, always, a way out… Read more »
Do you want to know best way to bond with your tots and teens? Playful parenting. My step dad was a master of playful parenting. He’d arm wrestle me, often letting me win. Or if he won repetitively, I’d hit him, and he’d cry out a playful, “Wah!” Or he’d flex his biceps and cry,… Read more »
As Thanksgiving weekend gets underway in Canada, we present two reflections on Thanksgivings past. Eating like it’s 1949. Writer Teresa Neuman takes a nostalgic perusal through her grandmother’s cookbook, which she’s recently inherited. “… my health conscience brain has put the brakes on deep-fried ‘Sour Cream Doughnuts’ (Page 1534) or I would be in the… Read more »
