Once upon a time there was a Scanner named Hazel who wanted to know and try everything about virtually everything. (And because she is attempting to believe and live self-acceptance she won’t?will try not to?make the easy and self-deprecating crack about being magpie-like in her attraction to the next shiny new thing.) What this confused… Read more »
Dear Barb: My boyfriend and I have been dating for six months. He is divorced with two young children who live with their mother. His ex is very bitter, so my boyfriend hardly sees his children. Recently, his ex began to date someone and will be going away with him for Christmas. She wants my… Read more »
Eleven billion dollars. That’s how much, give or take a few million, is spent around the world each year on trying to lose weight, on brand-name diets, supplements, and other efforts to drop unwanted pounds. Now, scientists at Nestlé are working on a new solution?a pill that will burn fat without exercise. The trouble is,… Read more »
This week I’ve chosen to expand on a previous column about writing an Ethical Will. The reasons for investing the time and energy to create one are numerous and significant. It allows the writer to make her deepest wishes and values known. To leave a tangible legacy behind as a way of being remembered. To… Read more »
Steve Bell is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 1989, after years of having worked with other artists, he experienced a spiritual awakening that lead to the creation of his own label?Signpost Music?for which he went on to create fifteen solo albums. He’s now marking the 25th anniversary of Signpost with… Read more »
Album: Bluebird Artist: Kalen & The Sky Thieves Sometimes we all need music that we can just sit back, listen to, and sink into the sounds and rhythms as they gently roll over us. Bluebird by Kalen & The Sky Thieves is full of music that will wash away all the stressors of the day…. Read more »
Dear Barb: Less than one month till Christmas and I am so stressed out! This will be my first Christmas with my husband as we just got married in June. I was looking forward to us having an intimate Christmas morning together and then going to families? for dinner. Well it doesn’t look like that… Read more »
Film: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Director: Robert Wiene Writers: Carl Mayer And Hans Janowitz Restoration: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden “There are spirits everywhere. They are all around us. They have driven me from hearth and home? from wife and child.” – Narrator, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari The above lines pretty much sum up the sense… Read more »
There is nothing more that The Study Dude wants for you than to know that you are truly a very special person?one that this world desperately needs?and all of your contributions to humanity are meaningful, worthwhile?and life-giving. Well, in these articles, as The Study Dude, I’ll try to give you the study tips you need… Read more »
In last week’s Toolbox we sorted out the meanings of whose (indicates possession) and who’s (a contraction of who is). This week we’ll look beyond spelling at usage?and debunk a non-rule that’s been confusing writers for a long time. People and Animals Whose is the possessive form of the pronouns who and which. There’s no… Read more »