We all know the feeling—when they stop making your favourite lipstick colour. We’re filled with rage, disappointment, and frustration. We begin frantic searching online for end-of-the-line cosmetics sell-offs to see if we can score a couple of the precious remains. If you’re like me, you immediately sit down and fire off a snarky email to the cosmetics giant who betrayed you in hopes they will…
Under no circumstances will I touch the buttons on my cellphone ever again—well, except for using the app to adjust the volume on my hearing aids, a necessity at my age. Any digital missteps could result in me spending time I’ll never get back talking to someone in Outer Mongolia who barely speaks English. All those off-shore service reps know me now, have dealt with…
The other day I received a telephone call requesting a convenient time to schedule the annual servicing of our air conditioning unit. The caller’s English was heavily accented and I had trouble hearing her, so thinking it was another scam robo-call I hung up while she was mid-sentence. The next day I received an email from my regular HVAC service provider to schedule my annual…
Domestic goddess Martha Stewart is grabbing a lot of headlines these days for showing up on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit edition at the age of 81. Claiming a healthy lifestyle and good genes as being the reason she still looks like she does is a bit of a stretch, don’t you think? Frankly, I find the whole thing appalling. First of all,…
We first became aware of the downside of the new “working from home” trend when my (retired) husband was unable to book his usual early morning golf time. He noticed all the twenty, thirty, and forty-somethings grabbing his preferred weekday tee-off times. Then, they began filling up the rest of the times throughout the day and populated the outdoor clubhouse patio at lunch time in…
He meant well. When my husband made a stop at Five Guys the other day it was his intention to treat me to my favourite takeout fries, a burger, and a milkshake for lunch. What he was not prepared for was a bill totalling fifty dollars! Even McDonald’s prices have skyrocketed (relatively speaking) but fifty dollars? Sticker shock from that expenditure was enough to put us off…
