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Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.” - Dr. Seuss

Be green - hang your laundry in the fresh breeze

Recent letters and lifestyle articles in the local rag have extolled the practical and karmic virtues of using a clothesline to dry laundry, rather than an electric- or gas-heated automatic clothes-dryer. The proponents need to think a bit more about what century they're in. This is not the 1950s, when June ...

Driving is no place for multi-tasking

This is another Letter to Ed that of course did not get published, because I included specifics that could identify the asshole in question. But it felt good to get it off my chest. And if you're ever in Ottawa, and driving on our roads, keep a wary eye peeled ...

Urbanites can be so smug - I wanna be one

I live in Ottawa, Canada, the Nation's Capital (we don't spell it Capitol as Americans do...). Actually, when I came here, I moved to a small city - a bedroom suburb of Ottawa - called Nepean. The commute was not long, and it went through greenspace. The price of the ...

January 4th 2009
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chocolate

I have met many people who don't eat chocolate. Some of them are dieting, so they are depriving themselves.  Tsk!  So sad. Some of them say that they simply don't like chocolate. I believe that they mean what they say... I just don't believe that they're actually from this planet.  Never mind ...

stink

This is about how NOT to stink. PREAMBLE Some of you don't sweat, and you never smell bad. Go away. The rest of us emit body odor to a lesser or greater degree. Actually, most of what we emit through our pores is odorless. Even the sweat in our armpits is odorless when ...
January 4th 2009
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Don’t park your butt

Ok, sorry-in-advance, but we're going to get down to some basic poop, here. Literally. We're going to discuss intestinal function, plumbing (yours), diseases (like diverticulitis, crohn's, irritable bowel, appendicitis, and even hemorrhoids, also constipation), and I have to mention all this in the first couple of sentences, or the search-engine bots don't ...
January 1st 2009
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Prostate

There. I said it. Werty derd. I'll be talking to the guys, here, about something that'll affect most, eventually. Actually, I already talked about it in my other post on sleep and natural-source calming drugs. So, no need for more than a quick summary here, and then get to my observation/recommendation. If you are ...
December 31st 2008
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Sleep easy with this one

I said I'd mention another herbal product I'd actually found useful - as opposed to the vast majority (that I've tried - still a tiny minority of all the concoctions you can find out there, but... where was I? oh yeah...). It was called Hi Qi Restful Sleep. You're sleepin' OK?   ...

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