Have you ever noticed that the moment you buy a red car you see nothing but red cars just like yours everywhere? Or if I said “Don’t think about the colour blue,” that’s all you would see or think about? With millions of sensory stimuli bombarding us daily, we need to be able to ignore… Read more »
The Edmonton Police Service is used to criticism. Scandal after scandal, internal inquiry after internal inquiry, chief after chief, the criticism continues. It is no simple matter, this business of modern day policing. A sampling of letters to the editor, man in the street interviews, and venting submissions reveals almost as many takes on this… Read more »
Rant alert! Rant alert! Am I alone in believing that basic customer service is going to hell in a hand basket? Didn’t think so. It doesn’t seem to matter if the purchase costs a few dollars or thousands of dollars. It doesn’t matter if the business is a corner store, big box store, e-commerce website,… Read more »
It could be menopause. Then again, it could be years of first living with the torn rotator cuff and the past three months of living with the post-surgery pain. It could be our new furnace that starts with the decibels of a jet engine and the air rush of a turbine. It could also be… Read more »
It’s Valentine’s Day as I write this. Multi-course meals in darkened restaurant dining rooms, long-stemmed red roses, gold jewelry, and decadent chocolate are tradition. Some men will enter the potential minefield of buying their women lingerie. Experts say underestimate the size of panties and over-estimate the bra size. The theory being big boobs are better… Read more »
Do the names David Chilton, Suze Orman, David Bach or Charles Givens mean anything to you? Are you familiar with the term Latte Factor? Double Latte factor? Pay yourself first? Maximize your contribution? Do you know your credit score? Are you living today on tomorrow’s money? Do you know how much you need for retirement?… Read more »
The aftermath of my November surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff and related problems continues. While I have every reason to believe that all this will have been worth it when I’m totally recovered, it is not for the faint of heart. I undertook the surgery and subsequent physiotherapy because I believed I would… Read more »
The time that has elapsed since my shoulder surgery in early November has given me some perspective. Make no mistake, there’s still considerable pain with the physiotherapy exercises I need to do daily. I do not yet have full range of motion or strength back in that arm. Nor will I for several more months…. Read more »
Readers of this space will remember I was to have surgery in November to repair a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder. I showed up dutifully at the Grey Nuns Hospital on the morning of November ninth as physically and psychologically ready as I could be. I waited around in one of those lovely… Read more »
Enclosed in a plastic bag with last November’s issue of Style At Home magazine was a copy of the World Vision 2005 Christmas Gift Guide. I hung onto it because I thought it would make a great column. The other day the 2006 guide arrived. These Christmas guides are like nothing you’ve ever seen before…. Read more »