Archive for August 2008
Tainted meat. Time to go vegetarian?
Posted by: ainse on: August 30, 2008
Last Monday, after my husband had packed our son his lunch for camp, I finally paid attention to the news report about the Maple Leaf meat recall and it suddenly dawned on me that I hadn’t checked what kind of lunch meat we were using. Rushing to the fridge, I realized that package was no [...]
Congrats, Canada!
Posted by: ainse on: August 16, 2008
When I went to bed Friday, Canada did not have any medals. Countries such as Togo and Tajikistan had one, but we didn’t. But when I woke up Saturday morning, we had three! Hurray!
I can’t get into the whole “Canada doesn’t support their athletes” debate; I’m sure you could find hundreds of posts about that. [...]
The Olympics. Do they make you bawl?
Posted by: ainse on: August 8, 2008
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I’m such a baby. I was watching the opening ceremonies this morning and for some reason, it was just so overwhelmingly beautiful and incredible that it brought tears to my eyes. My son turned to me curiously and wanted to know why I was crying. I swiped my face with a Kleenex, muttering, “Allergies” and [...]
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