How to choose your first apartment
Do everything you can to show you can pay the rent on time and leave the rental undamaged. Remember, rentals are expensive to maintain and easy to lose…
Category: General Interest
Tips to keep your cat happy indoors
Whether it’s for your cat’s safety or for the neighborhood birds’ safety, we have a number of reasons to keep our feline family members inside. Trouble…
Who was General Tso?
Have you ever bitten into the sticky-sweet, somewhat spicy General Tso’s chicken and stopped to ask why this amazingly bad-for-you (but oh-so-delicious)…
Sign up for the Christmas Bird Count, a different sporting event
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the Christmas Bird Count. On Christmas Day in 1900, ornithologist Frank Chapman’s group initiated an alternative…
In Canada: Remembrance Day
The cannons of World War I were barely silenced when Canadians began looking for ways to honour their war dead. One of the most touching commemorative…
American Indian Heritage Month: The nations of North America finally revealed
President Thomas Jefferson was deeply curious about the peoples who lived in the West of the unexplored American continent. Rumor was all he had to go on…
Travel Bag: In the event of an emergency
If the cabin in an airplane loses pressure, and if the oxygen masks do drop down, will it do you any good? Yes, it could help for about 12 minutes. That…
Travel Bag: Traveling from a cold area to a hot area
It’s 2 degrees in Saint Paul and you’re heading to Jamaica. What to wear? Bustle.com recommends layers, not coats. Coats have to be stashed in overhead…
Even baking can be fake on the internet
At one time, people thought a photo or video told the truth. But not today. Even videos about cooking and baking are being faked. YouTube baker Ann…
Collections range from rich to weird
Clutter enemy Marie Kondo recommends tidy living, surrounded by just those items that spark joy. For Jay Leno, cars spark joy. He has 136, along with 90…