Do you like the holiday letters? I don’t mean the ones that are handwritten just for you, maybe on the inside of the card sent to you. I mean the form letters, maybe printed on festive stationary, addressed to no one in particular and stuffed inside the card. I have mixed feelings about them. On…

Nanaimo is a town on Vancouver Island. I’m not sure what these yummies have to do with it – presumably, they were created there – but like many Canadians, we eat these around the holidays. They’re sweet enough to stop your heart, but really good. This recipe is from a Baker’s Chocolate recipe book. Probably…

How are you doing with all those jobs that need to be done at this time of year? Finished your gift shopping? Your gift knitting? Decorating? Baking? Despite my plan to do no holiday gift knitting, I did a lot of it. I think it’s all done now, barring any last minute emergencies. It was…

There’s an article in the Globe today about two studies on consumer contributions to greenhouse gas emissions. I would have expected this kind of article to generate a little bullet list in a sidebar, of the 50 Things You Can Do To Save The Earth variety, but it didn’t. So, let’s make our own. The…

An earworm is a song that gets stuck in your head. It’s usually not a song you would choose to hear over and over again, but earworms are tough to shake. ‘Tis the season when earworms prosper – there’s something about holiday music. I usually come home from holiday shopping with an earworm and fa…