“You’ve got mail” is now a ping, not a pleasure to be savoured

Lynda Davis
June 14, 2019
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Call me old-fashioned but I love getting mail, the kind now referred to as snail mail. If a day goes by that I don't get a magazine or something personal in my mailbox, I can get downright cranky. Is it because my life is so utterly lacking in excitement that the mail is a big deal to me? Even my little dog jumps up and down spinning with excitement when I announce, "Let's go get the mail". She understands. Yesterday I was thrilled to find my mailbox stuffed with magazines,…

We've got mail!

ROCKETMAN rocked out this boomer

Lynda Davis
June 10, 2019
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My girl gang went to the movies this week to see Rocketman, the biopic of Elton John, and we really got our money's worth. Encouraged by how much we enjoyed Bohemian Rhapsody we expected a spectacle just as great. It was a bit of a surprise when, a few minutes into the movie, the child Reggie Dwight pulls off to the side and sings a song. So, be clear, the movie is a musical, not just a movie about a musician. Ordinarily, I'm not a fan of musicals (even though…

Kudos to Chatelaine and Dove soap for recognizing that all women are beautiful

Lynda Davis
June 7, 2019
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When I received the June/July 2019 issue of Chatelaine magazine in my mailbox this week I was a little taken aback—at first. Featured on the cover of the annual swimsuit issue (a cliché if there ever was one) is a full-bodied woman of indeterminate age wearing a coral-coloured swimsuit, a straw sunhat, and a huge smile. The more I thought about it and went through its pages, the bigger the smile grew on my own face. It takes courage for a major magazine to turn the tables on the media's…

Different covers were released in different areas.

Glory hallelujah! It’s road construction season again. Help wanted

Lynda Davis
June 3, 2019
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It's a common cliché here in Canada—we have only two seasons—winter and road construction. As I drive around the city and surrounding countryside I'm experiencing my annual surge of anger and frustration with the state of our transportation system. Once the snow melts, roads and highways are cordoned off, lanes reduced and then nothing happens. IF there's any activity on the site, two bored-looking workers are wandering around with a shovel in their hands but most often there's nothing going on. I realize road and highway maintenance and improvements are necessary…

Clear the track! I'll be dead before this @!#$%^& work gets finished.

Canadian author Yasuko Thanh’s personal journey is a contemporary tragedy

Lynda Davis
May 31, 2019
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Despite the proliferation of helicopter parenting these days, there are still far too many children who are unloved, unwanted, mistreated, and, tragically, abused. Mental illness often plays a major role in the lives of many parents and children who through no fault of their own are unable to negotiate a happy, fulfilling life. Canadian author Yasuko Thanh's Mistakes to Run With: A Memoir is such a story. I wasn't sure what to expect when I began reading her memoir but as the story unfolded I was alternately appalled and transfixed.…

I Marie-Kondo’d my bra drawer and feel so uplifted

Lynda Davis
May 27, 2019
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Rachel Hollis, author of Girl, Wash Your Face was right: Bras are the devil's work. Over my lifetime, I've probably invested the equivalent cost of a luxury German imported car in a futile search for a comfortable bra. I'm convinced they don't exist. Yesterday as I was getting dressed to go out, I tried on no less than three before I found one comfortable enough to wear to the mall. And when I got there I bee-lined it for the Jockey For Her section in the lingerie department in search of something…

We all know that feeling!