I suppose it was inevitable. The official end of gardening season has arrived. I pulled the last of the kale from my home garden recently, remorsefully. The worst part is that I hate shopping at the supermarket. Its a soul-sucking experience for me when I have to...
Wrinkled fingers and sore feet are the only aspects of canning and preserving that I don’t enjoy. Every September I find myself happily exhausted after a weekend standing in my sister’s kitchen making tomato sauce. My whole family partakes in this tradition that...
Before Christmas, I was sitting in a professional conference, enjoying the speaker, when I caught sight of an old classmate of mine (who frankly, I didn’t like very much). More than ten years earlier, we had had words about something that had come to pass. She made...
Everyone who knows me, knows that I am really into fresh vegetables. I have a vegetable garden at home AND at the cottage and I’ve been known to have an obsession with canning, freezing and preserving. I really can’t think of a vegetable that I don’t like (although...
I overheard a most interesting conversation between two young people today at a local cafe. They were eating a reasonably healthy lunch and complaining loudly about their high school cafeteria menu having changed. “They don’t even have a decent bag of chips anymore”...
The other morning I headed out to run my regular 5km route at our cottage. A few minutes into my route, I realized I was having a lot of trouble with my breathing. My airways felt really tight and my sinuses felt full. I don’t have asthma, but I wondered briefly if...
