It is seldom that I write a piece like this on this site, but it would be remiss of me not to use The Perfect Connections to try to help my readers as well as bringing fun and novel snippets to your attention. Anyone who does not know that we are living in rapidly uncertain [...]

       As cocktails go, the Cosmopolitan is ubiquitous!    It is made in almost every bar on the planet and is the cocktail of choice for many people, including such cultural icons as Robert Evans, former head of Paramount Studios, for whom the Cosmo was like mothers milk.   The Cosmo has become [...]

When many of us were growing up, most families played board games.      Most of us were expected a to understand and compete in complicated card and board games that were at some point way beyond our cognitive abilities.  Competition was fierce in some homes. Short of watching television there wasn’t much else to do on cold [...]

                         A few months ago a colleague and I met with a man who is a conspiracy theorist and survivalist.  I won’t get into his theories on global conspiracy, but I will say that we spent over an hour listening to tips on having land up north, stocking food, buying firearms and hard currency and [...]

  If you plan on listing your house, here are 10 things worthy of your attention.   Although some of these suggestions may be obvious – it is sensible to take them into account.  Let’s face it, where real estate sales are down 50% in the GTA versus last year, how you present your property in [...]