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Let me tell you about Jimmy.

Jimmy and I have known each other since August 2004.

Jimmy has gone almost everywhere with me since the day we met.

Jimmy and I shared many marvelous adventures. (continued in read more)

With the Alberta provincial election around the corner, I hear many people bemoan the fact that they know nothing about politics. Therefore they intend to stay away from the polls.

I strongly feel that if we don't exercise our right to vote, we seriously jeopardize it.  See previous blog Going Voting. Recent history provides many examples of power and democratic elections snatched from the people right before their eyes. 

The Vote Compass on the CBC web site is a handy tool to help you figure out how you can vote without compromising (too many of) your values. (continued in read more)

One of the pleasures of having my own blog is I get to post whatever I want.

I don’t pretend to know what my readers want.  I hope they keep reading because they like what I write, they get something out of the ideas I share, or it beats wasting time on other sites or parked in front of the TV.

What I write is real.  Not what an editor dictates to me in an effort to please an audience to whom my master wishes to sell stuff, most of it unnecessary and contributing to our out of control consumption and its impact on our world. (continued in read more)

I catch a glimpse of my ample (less demeaning than big, large, flabby or fat) thighs while toweling off, fresh out of the shower.

I see my thighs' lives flash before my eyes: scrawny 12 year-old thighs; taut 16 year-old thighs that summer I lived on the back of my horse; the stretch marks from my first baby when I ballooned 45 pounds; the compliments I used to get on my nice legs, of which my thighs are an integral part. 

I miss those nice thighs!

 It is as though my thighs are having a near death experience!

That thought gives birth to this idea: ample thighs probably once saved the lives of grandmothers.

 Follow me on this:  (continued in read more)

"Your daughter is a woman of great integrity."

In a recent meeting with a lawyer, who had also worked with my daughter, he paid me the best compliment a parent could receive.

He didn’t comment on her obvious beauty or her intelligence.

He praised her for her honesty. (continued in read more)

When husband watches TV I usually read, but as a marketer I enjoy studying commercials.  It occurred to me the other day that most TV commercials are for things we don't really need. 

Here are 13 of the most obvious examples.  (continued in read more)

Haven’t you heard?  Only one woman in 2500 benefits from mammogram. 

Of those 2500, many will have false positive readings, resulting in unnecessary procedures and of course, anxiety and stress.

We must stop mindlessly subjecting ourselves to diagnostics and treatments that cause more harm than good.  (continued in read more)