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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
There are many similarities between being financially fit and physical or mental wellbeing. For one, possessing financial awareness, or “fitness”, will barricade us against stressors such as emergency use of funds. Money has a tendency to leave us at the earliest opportunity and, especially as students, when stress hits a lot of rational thought goes… Read more »
At Superstore, I peek at people’s groceries. The porkiest shoppers buy pop, cookies, or chips. Junk food spans up to half their cart. The beefy (but not obese) shoppers buy processed foods like frozen pizzas, white breads, and wieners. But the leanest shoppers buy mounds of fruits and veggies. I can guess waist sizes by… Read more »
GEOG 265 (Introductory Physical Geography I) is a three-credit introductory geography course that concentrates on the exploration of the geographic patterns and dynamics of the atmosphere and hydrosphere, covering the topics of global radiation, energy and water budgets, temperature and precipitation patterns, oceanic and atmospheric circulation, weather components, and climates. There are no prerequisites for… Read more »
