Year: <span>2021</span>

Several moons ago, we moved into a monstrous new bungalow (bad decision, but that’s another story) with a few baffling bells and whistles attached. Among them was a strange (to us) fan that kicked in automatically every so often for reasons that remain shrouded in mystery. It was noisy. And weird. A few weeks after...

This smoothie is perfect to start your day or to have after the gym, as it is refreshing and full of antioxidants. It has cleansing and alkalizing properties, with a good amount of greens and fibre. This smoothie is packed with chlorophyll, carotene, calcium, magnesium, and potassium. Ingredients 2 sticks of celery 2 kale leaves...

The year 2020 was a nightmare. If worries about the coronavirus and other news kept you from sleep last year, then read on! I have some suggestions here for getting more restful, healthful sleep in 2021. The importance of sleep and its role in enhancing our ability to make logical decisions, regulating our appetite, recalibrating...

Let’s cut to the chase: 2020 was a really hard year. You want 2021 to be much, much better. But you cannot depend on external circumstances to create improvements — they might or they might not. What you can control is how you approach your near and dear and how you take steps to improve...

Creative types all over the world have been talking about their muses going missing during the COVID pandemic. Iris Hauser is not among them. Since the lockdown began last March, the Saskatoon painter and art teacher produced 33 canvases by December, not including several more previously begun. These are not small landscapes, still lifes or...

If there is one thing I learned last year, it is how people stepped up to take on a challenge, even if it cost them harm or even death. For the past decade, I have been fighting two deadly diseases — Crohn’s and intestinal cancer. I am winning my battle and was coming along until...

This year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts and Tim Hortons Brier will be unlike any before them. Curling is moving into a bubble in Calgary. The two national championships will have the largest fields they have ever had, with 18 women’s and 18 men’s teams. It’s Curling Canada’s way to deal with COVID, and to be...

Dave Moore has virtually touched all the bases, everything from working with the youngsters in Squirts softball to Canadian championship tournaments and occasional international flings, in an umpiring career which has extended beyond 6,000 games and is still counting. “I played with some good Saskatchewan teams in softball and baseball but in 1968, I reached...

It is the season of traditions. Some traditions may have been around for generations. I still make my great grandmother’s stuffing every year. Other traditions slowly evolve over the years. From the time my oldest daughter was born, each year my mom would give us all a new pair of pajamas to open on Christmas...

As I write this in December, I am listening to our prime minister deliver a COVID-19 vaccination announcement. A quarter-million doses from Pfizer are arriving this month, so by the time you read this, they should be here, approved by Health Canada. This is the tricky dose: it must be kept at an atrociously cold...