Yes, the new Canada’s food guide does away with the “dairy” category. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
I’m a huge dairy fan.
I drink two glasses of milk per day.
Our household consumes more mozzarella than the average pizza parlor. [Read more…]
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I’m a huge dairy fan.
I drink two glasses of milk per day.
Our household consumes more mozzarella than the average pizza parlor. [Read more…]
We spend a third of our waking hours on the job. If our job sucks, it’s hard to be happy. If our job is great, we have a pretty good chance of being happy.
But what makes a great job. How do you choose one that will bring happiness? [Read more…]
Thanks to the Internet, we have a world full of digital nomads. In the days of moat diggers and blacksmiths, it was important to live close to your work. Moats are not transportable, and if you tried transporting a customer’s horse, there was likely a hanging in your very near future. These days, a lot of work is geography independent.
Here are a few of the careers that will follow you no matter where your feet or a plane ticket will take you. These are generally freelance careers, where you work for a variety of companies and individuals: [Read more…]
Dorothy lost hers. I forgot mine. My wife broke hers. I speak of shoes, of course.
So why are we all smiling? We each have our reasons, and here they are… [Read more…]
If you are thinking of entering the fitness business, one of the first things you’ll need to come up with is a logo. A logo is the visual representation of your business. It is not your brand. Your brand is what people think of you and how they feel about you. But your logo is a visual representation of your brand. [Read more…]
Home shows on TV encourage us to dream big and imagine that we can have it all. The modern home concept in North America is to have a room for everything. That is, a single room for each purpose.
In fact, we often see several rooms for a single purpose on these shows. This is especially true with bathrooms. There’s the main bathroom, the master suite bathroom, the ensuite bathroom and the other bathroom. How many bathrooms does one house need? [Read more…]
Every new technology has a purpose. Nobody invents things for no reason. But many technologies have unintended consequences. They change society in some way that nobody foresaw, not even the inventors.
The example I often use is air conditioning. What an amazing invention, saving people from withering in summer’s heat. The reason to invent air conditioning was to make us more comfortable. But what else did it end up doing? [Read more…]
A while ago, I wrote about 8 ingenious styles of customer service that every business should know about, mostly because their employees have been inflicting them on unsuspecting customers.
For instance, I warned about “in your face customer service” and “run for cover customer service”, two equally effective opposites…like pouring too much sugar on your Shreddies one morning for breakfast, and dumping too much cayenne pepper on them the next morning. [Read more…]
A while back, I wrote about how to save money, time and the environment by washing pajamas more rationally. You can read the article here.
Today, I am going to save you even more money on laundry through the magic of simple mathematics. I know, you thought that graduating high school meant never having to do math again, but I will walk you though it step by step. [Read more…]
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