When I was a child, my parents put me in swimming classes. To be honest, I never liked it very much because I was never good at it. My technique wasn’t too bad but the main problem was my endurance… my endurance was, quite frankly, …
I remember going to my first high school dance. To be honest, there wasn’t a whole lot of actual dancing going on, with the majority of my peers just standing around along the walls. As I’m sure many of you can relate to, we were …
Meet Nigrita, an 80-year-old Galapagos tortoise that laid her first eggs this year! While 80 years might seem quite a bit late in life for us to be having babies, Galapagos tortoises can live to be over 150 years old. In other words, Nigrita is …
Is a party ever really a party if there’s no cake? Hint: absolutely not. The cake is that essential, not to mention delicious, element that punctuates any celebration. And who doesn’t love cake? But while I do love me some mocha ice cream cake or …
Have you ever heard of a sand dollar? Even if you haven’t, there’s a good chance that you’ve seen one at the beach or at a souvenir shop… they’re these smooth, hard, white discs that have a pattern in the centre that resembles a five-petal …
When you’re renovating your home, what do you do with the stuff that you’re replacing? In some cases, you might be able to put them up for sale but in most cases, it ends up in the waste disposable bin. But isn’t that a shame? Many …
There’s nothing quite like coming home to a warm, home-cooked meal. So when you have a hectic work schedule, it’s the slow cooker to the rescue! Slow cookers are the ultimate in “set it and forget it” cooking. You dump your ingredients in, set the …
Ah, the miracle of childbirth! It is, without a doubt, one of the most incredible but most stressful things anyone can go through… and that “anyone” most certainly includes horses! What do I mean? Students at the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) at Oregon State …
The other day I was hanging out on my couch when I noticed an absolutely terrible smell. It wasn’t a very familiar smell so I looked around to see if I could somehow identify the culprit but it remained a complete mystery. I tried my best to ignore …
When I was a child, I always wished I had one of those fancy inground pools in my backyard. But alas, they were far too expensive, apparently costing in the tens of thousands of dollars. Yikes! So like most kids, I settled for trips to …