Dear Mary;
How do I re decorate my living room to look like it has been “done” by an interior designer, when I am on a budget?
Hi there;
Everyone is on a budget these days, so your question is timely.  We may have to cut back but there is no reason to stop enhancing our living space [...]

I love a great pizza and although many pizza joints claim to be the best, there’s only one place that since the very first time I ate there, has always stood out above all others. It’s called Lombardi’s and it’s on Spring Street in Soho, New York.

Lombardi’s was New York’s first licensed pizzeria and opened [...]

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Glenys  Babcock first became involved with the
peace movement more than 25 years ago in the early 1980s.
After her first year as a physics major at Queen’s University, Glenys took time off school to spend three months in Calcutta as a volunteer for Mother Teresa’s charity.
It was an extraordinary and powerful [...]

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 times, [...]

 
 
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 a legend,   and it is pink. The [...]

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 winter evenings.   Boardgames [...]

                        
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 collecting [...]

 
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 this buyer’s [...]

Every third week in January for the past 18 years, Ferrari owners and aficionados have gathered on the lawn of the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach Fla. for the annual Cavallino Classic, arguably the most prestigious Ferrari event in North America.
The array of cars is overwhelming; from 1950’s racers to the most current super car, [...]

These days, with travel bookings just a click away on the internet and countless guidebooks romanticizing Provence and Tuscany, it is hard to believe that the clichéd off the beaten track Western Europe still exists. And yet, when presented with the name Portugal, a surprising number of people ask what part of Spain it’s in [...]