The Chicken Burrito Incident or Which One Of These Does Not Belong In Canada?I knew better.  I really did.  And I thought he knew better.  So when my husband asked me to put his half-eaten chicken burrito hot pocket thing in my backpack on our Air Canada flight just before we got off, I gave [...]

The Trans-Canadian Adventure: Or Three Broke Wannabes in a Greyhound BusAlmost two years ago, I was sitting in the basement of my mother-in-law’s house in Germany, discussing with my husband which country we should try next.
US – can’t go there (that’s why we were in Germany)
Belize – too hot. And other issues.
Stay in Germany – [...]

The Best Yogurt EverIf you want really great tasting yogurt, the kind you can eat plain out of the carton, look for Balkans style or natural yogurt.  Check the ingredients.  The best yogurt only has milk products (this may include powdered milk or whey protein) and bacterial cultures.  It is naturally thick and creamy, and [...]

Book Review: The Girls by Lori LansensI found this book incredibly interesting and I read it constantly until the end. What was so interesting? The author is from Canada, the characters were well developed, and it is a story about conjoined twins (yes, siamese twins, but the proper term is conjoined twins). Of [...]

Food is, of course, the most basic of our needs beyond water and air (and toilet paper!). Isn’t it funny how we take these simple things for granted? You breathe in and out, you pull on the roll, you turn on the tap, you pop a Lean Cuisine into the microwave, or answer, “Yes”, to “Fries with that?” Easy, automatic, instant. But of course, it’s not. All of these things, with the exception of air, require a complicated combination of infrastructure and workforce to get to us. We only think about it when the system breaks down (imagine a toilet paper factory worker’s strike!), or when we pay our bills.

Cash 4 Books – turn your old books into folding money.I just found a great program to earn some quick money. Most of us know that we can make money on E-bay or Amazon, but that takes creating an account, fees, dealing with customers,and so on. Cash4books will pay you for your books, [...]

Melvin Durai, the Rajah of HumorI subscribe to a lot of newsletters, but my favorite is the “Funny Columns” from self-described “writer Melvin Durai, who was born in India, raised in Zambia and brainwashed in America”. He apparently now lives in Canada (go Canada!), and most of his columns have a sarcastic political message, often [...]

20 Minutes to Dinner by Bryanna Clark GroganThe subtitle for this book is Quick, Low-fat, Low-Calorie, Vegetarian Meals. And it should be noted that they are also vegan: no eggs, no milk, cheese, butter, or other dairy, and of course, no other animal products. Most of her recipes include some kind of tofu, or other [...]

The Garden Club and the Kumquat Campaign by Des KennedyThis is one of those perfect stories that I just couldn’t quit reading and was very sad to finally put down. Des Kennedy is a resident of Denman Island in the Georgia Strait of British Columbia, Canada, which I have had the recent pleasure of enjoying. [...]

Warning about Tesas Tea MailsOk, I hate writing negative posts, but this is just ridiculous. Tesasteamails is known as a “really good” PTR (paid to read e-mail site). One that actually pays, etc. So I signed up for them, hoping at least to redeem for ads (as you have to do with most of these [...]