My calendar has daily affirmations. Sayings that help me to become the best person I can be. Such as last Saturday’s: “I deserve to live a good life, and I begin now. Today begins a new, positive chapter in my life.” It’s the “new” year–a time of new beginnings. Positive […]
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By Gary Sliworsky Ag rep, Emo Another year has come and gone. Many businesses take year-end inventories of goods on hand and farm businesses are no exception. Producers, don’t forget to get inventories on your livestock, home-grown grains and forages, and any purchased feed and supplies you have on hand. […]
If I were to die tomorrow, I’d like to think my children, once they got over being sad, would regale each other with tales of when their mother went berserk. What a great word. Berserk. It hasn’t happened often but when it did, well, it is the stuff of legends. […]
“Millie” the cat has been living here for about 13 months and we are joined at the hip. It’s been a rewardingly mutual friendship thus far, and her life in this neck of the woods has been luxurious to say the least. This much I know is true. If I […]
We are in the age of opportunity. It seems like a strange thing to be saying in this new year, but I believe it to be true. The “Idle No more” protest that has sprung up across Canada has more people talking about the differences between First Nations’ and non-aboriginal […]
Happy New Year to all! With 2013 now upon us, many look forward to a new beginning and the exciting possibilities that await us. This also is a great opportunity to take a look at the year ahead. In 2013, we will have at least one new premier and the […]
So it finally happened. As a result of their 6-5 loss to Russia on Saturday at this year’s World Junior Hockey Championship in Ufa, Russia, Canada’s streak of 14-straight tournaments of earning a medal came to a screeching halt. Immediately following Valeri Nichushkin’s overtime goal for the tournament hosts, the […]
My downfall is paper. White paper, yellow paper, fancy paper, plain paper, newspaper clippings, magazine articles. Whole file cabinets of paper–five four-drawer cabinets in all, in fact. I have an excellent filing system so I can find papers that I filed 20 or 30 years ago at the drop of […]
It’s a cliché when you say it year after year, but as is often the case, the past 12 months in the sporting world were entertaining on the local, national, and international scenes. Granted, there are the stories unfortunate to hear about, such as the continuing fallout of the Penn […]
Christmas has come and gone. I’m always amazed by how far off it seems, and then it is as if someone turned a dial and everything fast-forwarded. I ate my weight in Turtles and poppycock, even though I vowed I wouldn’t. I even may have promised myself I would do […]
We all have traditions that we enjoy and look forward to each year. But what happens when the traditions that were part of your life change because you move to a country with different one. How easily could you embrace the changes? My future daughter-in-law, who grew up in Seoul, […]
With the arrival of each New Year, we all think about things in our life that we can look forward to in the coming 12 months. In a way, we get to start over with a fresh slate and this usually motivates us to do the things that we want. […]
