InsightForLivingCanada

Choose Your Rut Carefully

I love reading road signs. Like the one welcoming you to Kettle Falls, Washington, the home of “1255 friendly people and one grouch.” In Hilt, California, a sign advises: “Brakeless trucks, use freeway.” Along Oregon’s winding coast, another warns: “Emergency stopping only. Whale watching is not an emergency. Keep driving.” I pulled into a service station once. A bold sign proclaimed, “We have Mexican food. We have gas.” But my favourite of them all is posted on an Alaska highway: “Choose your rut carefully. You’ll be in it for the next two hundred miles.”

No Time for Islands

How important are you? Chuck answers that when he writes,

More important than you think.

A rooster minus a hen equals no baby chicks. Kellogg minus a farmer equals no corn flakes.

If the nail factory closes what good is the hammer factory?

Paderewski’s genius wouldn’t be much if the piano tuner hadn’t shown up.

A cracker maker will do better if there’s a cheesemaker.

The most skillful surgeon needs the ambulance driver who delivers the patient. Just as Rodgers needed Hammerstein, you need someone and someone needs you.

Making fresh meals for Yourself

It’s that time of year again. You know the one I’m talking about—that time when a perfectly good four-letter word becomes the New Year’s dreaded word—D-I-E-T.

If you’re like me, you’ll begin 2009 with a fresh and invigorating commitment that this year will be different. You will put down that burger and Coke and pick up a... it’s so hard to swallow... a salad and ice water. But with determination, this year you’ll turn that resolution into reality.