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Ed, my neighbour next door, took a great many chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies to his family at Edmonton last week. Ed likes to make sure the children at their Easter celebrations will have lots of candy treats.

I think spring is here. We’re having beautiful long days with lots of sunshine. That’s what I looked forward to all winter.

The very good thing about finding your very own sense of happiness and contentment is, once you have known that sensation, you fight hard to regain it if you lose it. Moving to Saskatoon was a pivotal point in my life.

Words are powerful. Is there really a more trite saying in this world? Perhaps it's just because I'm a writer but it seems that true, albeit commonplace saying is a foundational principle understood by everyone.

Any perceived barriers appear to be unjustified

If there’s one thing that’s becoming the “new normal” for those now at or near retirement age, it’s “change.” Everything we thought we knew or expected about retirement has changed.

Most gardeners, at some point, start to dabble with bulbs. Lilies, hyacinths, alliums and tulips are just a few well-known bulbs. Really keen gardeners differentiate between "true bulbs" and bulb-like structures such as corms and rhizomes and tubers.

Is it me, or have Canadian politics gone crazy? The Mike Duffy Senate expenses fraud trial is on and already the entire national media has gone nuts with their nonstop coverage.

By the time spring really arrives, we are happy to see colour in the garden. From the landscape perspective, we would like to see our gardens filled with colour throughout the season and beyond.