Recently, Belinda Burston, blogging at Whatever He Says, described weasel (evasive, misleading) words. In her book, You Never Gave Me a Name, Katie Funk Wiebe wrote that one of her…
Published August 10th, 2014 by Brenda Wood
My job was to go out and open little gates in the fence line so the circle system could walk through. I misjudged the time. When I got out there…
Published August 9th, 2014 by Brenda Wood
Do you have ‘I’ disease? You know what I mean. “I want it my way. I will sulk if you do that. I want to be first. I am special.…
Published August 8th, 2014 by Brenda Wood
Who hasn’t faced troubles during their life time? We all have pain, illnesses, financial problems and multiple other kinds of suffering. The question is how will we deal with it?…
Published August 7th, 2014 by Brenda Wood
In 1827, Georg Ohm, a German physicist, published a paper describing the measurements of applied voltage and current through simple electrical circuits using wires of different lengths. The simple version…
Published August 6th, 2014 by Brenda Wood
If you hear thunder in the distance, you can be hit by lightning because it can travel as much as 10 miles/16 kilometres from a storm. Get indoors immediately, even…
Published August 5th, 2014 by Brenda Wood
Toronto’s CN tower stands tall 553.33 metres, which is 1,815.4 ft tall. That earns it about 75 lightning strikes per year. How does it cope? Long, think copper strips run…
Published August 4th, 2014 by Brenda Wood
The history of rock and roll is recorded in fifty-plus hours of radio programming by the same name. It includes everything from # 1 songs and interviews to comments from…
Published August 3rd, 2014 by Brenda Wood
Did you know that silver has antibacterial properties? It’s called the Oligodynamic Effect. Microbes don’t stick to silver. For example, a (real) silver dollar in a milk bottle will keep…
Published August 2nd, 2014 by Brenda Wood
If you are the least bit obsessive-compulsive, fitted sheets drive you crazy. They just won’t fold into a neat shape in the linen closet. So this is how it’s done.…
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