Year: <span>2022</span>

They will never be forgotten

In July 1999, Chris Brady, who lives in the San Francisco area, started NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The first NaNoWriMo consisted of 20 participants. The next year, the event was moved to November, as the weather in November is much more conducive to writing as opposed to July. Since then, NaNoWriMo has become a...

Nuclear energy has rather caught my attention lately. I’m definitely not alone. This renewed awareness brought a thought as we were driving north recently and, for the 2,000th time, I became hyperaware of the great vastness of this province. We are three times the size of the former West Germany and 2.7 times larger than...

Canada’s current inflation rate is 6.9 per cent, which is mainly due to our pent-up demand for consumer goods and the current global supply chain disruptions; but what about your personal lifestyle inflation rate? Could we have let that get out of control too? Lifestyle inflation is a term used when people of all ages...

We recently returned to our home in Mexico, where we spend a good part of the winter. Over the summer, we had renovations done to our kitchen. Now, it is much more efficient and I really love it, but the kind people who put things back in place had their own idea of organization. I...

I wasn’t one of the cool guys when I was in high school. I don’t recall ever saying, groovy, far out, peace, dig it, out of sight, the fuzz, bread or that’s a downer.You could add the word Man to almost all of these. I didn’t smoke marijuana. One of my friend’s older brother was...