For most of my adult life I’ve played gas station roulette with amazing accuracy. I can drive for days with that amber gas light blazing on my dash before pulling in, at the very last...
Read More →Just because we still have two and a half feet of snow on the ground doesn’t mean spring isn’t just around the corner! With Spring comes pollen and with pollen comes (for many of us) hay fever and allergies, if you’re tired of popping antihistamines and living...
Read More →There’s a reason we gift chocolate at Valentine’s Day. Besides being one of nature’s most perfect foods, from a chemical perspective, a new study finds that chocolate and some of our other favorite flavours, have structural similarities...
Read More →Newton's Law of Motion applied, in real life: A body in motion stays in motion. Recently while walking past my reflection, I noticed something on my leg, much to my surprise, it was...
Read More →Up to 15% of the population is affected to some degree by SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) or what most of us call the winter blues. Low light levels effect our natural circadian...
Read More →The stomach is a delicate organ, our source of digestion and nourishment, but let's face it, it doesn't get very good press. If you are having difficulty with something you "can't stomach it", if...
Read More →Spent much of my week horizontal, in the care of the medical professionals at the Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus who then attempted to kill me with aspartame....
Read More →Sprouting chickpeas? Really?! In the Gypsy Kitchen? Oh yeah, we're spouting chickpeas, because it's fun. Nothing I like more than growing things then eating them. When we talk about food...
Read More →It's cold and flu season; sniffles and sore throats and sick days. Some nasty little bug bit me hard this weekend which meant cough syrup and pajama time. Nothing quite so sexy as a...
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