By Laurie Sweig For the last 25 days I have been gettinginto and holding a squat position for one minute. I can understand ifsome of you are asking why I would want to do something…

By Laurie Sweig  There is more and more discussion happening around intermittent fasting. It’s something I am curious about but up until now I didn’t know much about it. I do know the basics. Fasting…

By Jim Poling Sr.    Raccoons love me. Why wouldn’t they? I give them bedtime snacks and a nice place to sleep. Wandering about at night, tearing down bird feeders and chewing up hummingbird sippy…

To the Editor Five weeks ago I reached outto Mr. Jamie Schmale our Member of Parliament to express my concernsabout the federal government and their apparent disregard for thepolitical process.  If you want to contact…

By Jim Poling Sr.    There are days when I want to be like Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and cut off my ear. It’s the wind. It is getting stronger by the year and…

By Jim Poling Sr.    It was a forlorn day in spite of the golden sunshine in a sapphire blue sky.   At 32 degrees Celsius early last week it was too hot to do…

By Jim Poling Sr.    Last week’s column about what might happen to the former Leslie Frost Natural Resources Centre on Highway 35 just south of Dorset sparked some discussion, and some ideas.   Discussion…

By Laurie Sweig The biggest challenge for many people isremembering to exercise. Actually the biggest challenge is wanting toexercise. Perhaps we’ll take this one challenge at a time so we’ll focus on the remembering part.…

By Jim Poling Sr.

By Laurie Sweig There are a couple of simple rules to good nutrition. One is if your grandmother (or great grandmother) didn’t use it in her cooking you shouldn’t be eating it. The other rule…

  It’s at this time of year that we celebrate the prominent battles, victories and end of the Second World War in 1945. Last Thursday was the 75th anniversary of VE Day, Victory in Europe…

By Laurie Sweig  It was Jimmy Connors who gets credit for the “use it or lose it” quote. When it comes to stamina, both mental and physical, that statement is true. COVID-19 lockdown has changed…

By Laurie Sweig We are still in a state of lockdown thanks to COVID-19 but it’s warm and sunny outside. My guess is that most of us are going to take spring cleaning to a…

By Jim Poling Sr.    Leaf budding is taking its time because of this spring’s chill. But slowly and surely new leaves are appearing, and soon those long views through a naked forest will be…

By Jim Poling Sr.    The prime minister was right on cue. Out in front of the microphone and cameras, promising more gun control in the wake of the Nova Scotia massacres. He said the…

So here I am scrolling through the nightly TV doomsday reports when I stumble into a barrel of laughs. On the CBC of all places. The CBC isn’t exactly known as the fun channel but…

By Jim Poling Sr. After the long winter illness colour is returning to the cheeks of my bush lot. A red-breasted robin hops through the newly-exposed layer of dead leaves looking for a grub or…

By Jim Poling Sr.      The lyrics keep riffing through my head . . . Oh, every night and every day A little piece of you is falling away But lift your face the…

By Laurie Sweig  I am not a fan of getting stuck in traffic. Specifically, the bumper-to-bumper type that has you inching forward at a rate slower than any sloth I’ve seen on a YouTube video.…

By Jim Poling Sr.    So many things to think about during this time of plague. So many people to be concerned, even anxious, about. The infirm. The older people with weakened immune systems. People…

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