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So, for those who are feeling a little unlucky because the toast hits the floor jam side down, a fingernail gets broken in the car door, or a pet leaves a present on the lawn to step in - think of Kerry Seabrook, Roy Sullivan and a man who used his favourite sheep as a bulletproof vest. Read more...
No pet has spawned more jokes than the talking parrot. Like the one about the frustrated magician working on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. With a different audience each night, the magician was able to do the same tricks repeatedly. Read more...
It was a time when weeds grew with the flowers and only adults were aware of it. We kids were too busy believing we would always be kids to take notice of or count the years. Read more...
It's difficult, if not impossible, for our grandchildren to comprehend that when their grandmother and I were their age, we didn't have television, cellphones, microwave ovens or computers. We didn't have ballpoint pens or power lawnmowers. They look at us as if we may be just teasing them with wild and impossible stories. Read more...
"He aches in the places where he used to play, he wanders into crowds when I tell him to ‘stay!' but I love him like a brother. And no other dog'll do. Nearing the end of a road that's been both joyful and long, it's official, my dog Jake, has become a Leonard Cohen song." Read more...
Do wine drinkers play board games? Do they cheat? This survey gives the real goods... we think...! Judge for yourself! Read more...
50-year-old Regina Brett, a writer for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio celebrated growing older by writing about life's lessons. She is now 53 years old, but it still remains as the most requested column she has ever written. Here it is for your enjoyment! Read more...
Feeling your age lately? Not bouncing out of bed like you used to? Been getting up to answer the door only to find that the knocking was coming from your knees? Is that what's troubling you boomer? I have the answer: Florida. Read more...
I'm from the Brylcreem generation. Things were different then. Guys' hair was only long enough to form a duck tail at the back. A little dab never did me! A quarter of a tube, maybe, but never a "little dab." Another thing was different then too - I had hair! Read more...
I have noticed, over the past few years, that I seem to have fallen through the cracks, and I'm no longer in touch with what is called reality. Especially with children! Read more...
A life-long reader decides to tackle a few books from the writer's chair. Read more...
Recently, police in Broward County, Florida, arrested a man impersonating a doctor who was going door-to-door, in the Lauderdale Lakes neighbourhood outside Miami, offering free breast examinations to women. Read more...
I know many people who still refer to the weed as "wacky tabacky." But make no mistake, Canada's rural landscapes rival California as the greatest producers of marijuana in North America. And the farmlands of Wainfleet, where I live, are favourite locations for the illegal growers. And apparently, ACME Greenhouses over on Sider Road were not, as the original agricultural zoning bylaw allowed, producing cucumbers. Read more...
Some experiences in life leave indelible marks on our souls. They enrich us, open our eyes to new worlds, give us joy - and then they pass, leaving us with warm and lasting memories to cherish forever. Nadine Jones was lucky enough to have such experiences when, as a woman who had lived for nearly 50 years in big cities, she moved to a small and secluded farm in northern B.C. Read more...
I looked in the mirror this morning and my reflection refused to look back. Talk about rude. There was some other guy in the place where my reflection should have been, making excuses as to why my reflection could no longer appear. Read more...
My dog Jake has gone deaf. It happened all of a sudden at the end of last summer. At first, I thought he was just having one of his streaks of stubbornness in which everything I tell him is ignored, and he knows he can get away with it because he's the most handsome pup on the planet. Read more...
My children want to have me bronzed! They want to put me in the hallway so visitors can hang their coats on me in the winter, and ignore me in the summer. They want to polish me every now and then, and point to me as a conversation piece. Read more...
My wife just accused me of playing with dolls. I'm in the midst of setting up our annual Christmas display in the garage. Read more...
Friendship is a wonderful and marvellous thing. But, at times, I find it hard to define. Read more...
I didn't always need or wear glasses. I don't need to now unless, of course, I want to see. Read more...
By Gipp Forster
I won’t say when I first wrote this particular column. It could have been last week or ...
By Chris Herbert
Initially, I had some trepidation about this trip or at least a nagging unease. Could I ...
By Mathieu Powell
Interview with Canadian icon Dr. David Suzuki...
Holiday Touch We interview Rob Davies of Victorian at McKenzie. Part of the Holiday Touch chain, Victorian at McKenzie has cluster care services, on-site, live-in managers, and an amazing travel program that allows their residents to travel to any one of over three hundred and twenty communities in North America where they can stay and eat... for FREE. CLICK HERE
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Sunrise of Victoria is a licensed long term care community located just minutes from Beacon Hill Park, downtown Victoria and three blocks from the Empress Hotel and Inner Harbor. Our community is set in a well-established, quiet residential neighborhood. We pride ourselves in our high-quality, resident-focused care and services. CLICK HERE.
Berwick Retirement Communities has made a very clear statement about how this small, family-owned BC company intended to elevate the quality of life for its residents.
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