Most of us eat at least 3 times a day (more, if you're me, and many many many more if you are my 2 and a half year-old toddlers), so I would say with great certainty that food is probably the one thing that affects…
Remember those slow roast days. Frying an egg on the pavement kind of day.
First the gentle sun ray, the warm caress. The intensity mounting.
Too much, too fast, the sweats, the feeling faint.
Then the sweating…
We are finally in the midst of full-blown summer weather and Canadian gardeners are smiling from coast to coast. That is until they see one of these deceptively harmless red beetles! The ‘dreaded lily beetle’ is certainly NOT…
I can’t remember exactly when it was when my babes started to realize that there was a wide wonderful world outside the cocoon their mama and papa had created for them, but what I do remember was thinking how amazing it was that…
A beach. A riverbed. A desert. An ocean floor.
Sand, sand and more sand. Those tiny gritty eroded rocks. Those small loose granular grains that can do absolute wonders for our feet. A perfect match.
‘Wriggle the sand between…
I was in my local pharmacy recently (buying band aids, which we go through like there’s no tomorrow with two toddlers around), and out of curiosity’s sake, I decided to go to the sunscreen aisle to take a peek at their…
This post was actually inspired by The Trust And the Truth that Martha wrote a while back. Other than being a great piece of writing, it brought to my attention how many products some people can go through in the…
I am currently reading Slow Death by Rubber Duck, a great Canadian-written non-fiction book about the toxins present in the food we eat and products we use in everyday day. I also recently attended a talk given at our local…