Posted in Blather on May 13th, 2006 No Comments »
I found Malcolm Gladwell’s post about approaches to health (U.S. versus U.K.) quite interesting – and the comments that follow it just as fascinating. He springboards from a study that indicates that while the U.S. spends considerably more on health, Americans are quite a bit more unhealthy than the British. (And I think Canada tends [...]
Posted in Blather on May 10th, 2006 5 Comments »
I came across The things that happen to Keith and I just loved it. It relates, in a way, to my post yesterday, Fat, skinny and missing things.
(Unfortunately, while I can access the page from work it appears the idiots at the Globe and Mail refuse to let anyone access it unless they pay [...]
Posted in Blather on May 9th, 2006 5 Comments »
So late Sunday night I saw Neil’s post Fat People. But it wasn’t till today I posted a comment.
I decided to post my comment here as well. (But I should warn you, it makes more sense if you’ve read Neil’s post. I recommend reading it.) This was my comment:
I saw this post late last [...]
Posted in Blather on May 8th, 2006 3 Comments »
As suggested by Spinning Girl (though it’s way too long so I’m only doing two of them - I may do the rest some other time), here’s the kind of blog you post when you have nothing worth posting about.
10 of my favourite things and 9 current things … though how favourite these are and [...]
Posted in Blather on May 6th, 2006 1 Comment »
Outside, the greening of the world continues. Inside, the dullness of domesticity has been loosed from its bounds as I embark on a weekend of … of … of I don’t know what except it involves cleaning and fixing and so on.
It begins with the bathroom, the Tower of London of modern life. Our vanity, [...]
Posted in Blather on May 2nd, 2006 3 Comments »
It wasn’t so much that I’d forgotten how much they like hockey here as … well, I guess it’s just that I hadn’t thought about it for a while. Last night was a reminder. They were going all night, the “Whoo-hoos!”
Around ten last night, I was watching the old 1930 movie Morocco. There they [...]
