Writer, Dabbler In Things
For as long as I can remember, I’ve liked sweets. You could pretty easily argue that more than like, I’ve loved them. Pastries, candy bars, cookies, Tim Hortons Iced Capps… I could write a very (very) long list of favourites. And of course there are favourites. Some day I’ll run down a Top 10 list … Read more
A few months back, I read that microplastics have been found to be in chewing gum. And not just the mass produced stuff, where one could reasonably expect that producers may cut corners on quality of ingredients to keep cranking out their offerings, but microplastics were found even in the likes of more natural brands … Read more
J and I have, completely unplanned, caught some documentary shows about food and food processing recently, and bread was among the topics. Perhaps due to that, or perhaps due to our gradually changing up such things every so often anyway, we also recently changed what bread we eat. The recent type gets moldy faster, which … Read more
I recently mentioned I was going to try to get into some intermittent fasting. Yeah… well… no. Or at least, what I have managed to do hasn’t gone well. Best laid plans, and all that. Not to point to just exterior issues to distract from what may be some personal shortcomings, but the genuine fact … Read more
I recently recommended a book I was reading about a new take — or at least, a take now getting a bit more attention — about how bodies do what they do, and what happens to them that causes illnesses.Part of the heart of that book was that we’re eating too much too often. Ours … Read more
I love butter tarts. That’s not an overstatement. If anything, it’s downplaying it. I love butter tarts like I love few other things in life. You can take my ice cream. You can take my chocolate. You can take my cookies and my cakes and buttercream icing. You can take a great many sweet treats … Read more
Occasionally, a question strikes me that I can’t quite shake. Not just the big ones that will often occur to us — Why are we here? How are we here? If energy can’t be created or destroyed, what went bang in the Big Bang? — but way, way smaller. Hence part of the irritation: How … Read more
It occurred to me that I’ve recently made a few changes that were explicitly, albeit perhaps uncharacteristically, for my own good. I hunted down a couple of meditation apps to help remind me to take some time out to just sit for a bit and be still. Not still like I can be when I’m … Read more
A few days ago I wrote about the personal issues I’ve dealt with of being full-to-overflowing with news and social media for years, and the peace and enjoyment I found in October in unplugging from all of that. But reality does have a nagging habit of encroaching on one’s ideals. The U.S. election was held … Read more
Hmm? What’s that you say?“Congratulations”? Oh… oh, I see… thanks, but no, this isn’t a good thing. I haven’t won the lottery, or any such happy event. No, I’ve breached (whale terminology not accidental) the limit I set for myself for weight gain. Like many of us in these Covid times, I’ve put on some … Read more