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By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Writer Are you at a stage, where you have been contemplating changes to your life but has not taken action? If so, stop procrastinating and take action. Make a decision and just DO IT! Recently, I ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Writer My grandmother, Florence Evans, who raised me from I was three years old to adulthood, was born in 1896. She has long past on from this world, yet how vividly I remember some of her ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Writer Are you one of those people who allow past misadventures to prevent you from striving for a successful future? I hope not. Although I am painfully aware of how devastating life can be when challenges ...

Ettie Rutherford Contributing Writer In today’s world as we listen to, or hear, the daily news, it is a real challenge to be optimistic and not fall into a morass of fear, doubt and a feeling that everything is spiralling ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Writer I am sure you have heard the expression, “as strong as a lion”. I used to wonder why the elephant was never the animal that was portrayed as being strong, even though it is much ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Writer Many years ago ,when living in Alberta, I met Jean Augustine, a woman who I now know as a friend, a mentor and an agent of change. The first thing that struck me about Jean ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Writer Quite recently, one of our topics of study at my church was about the significance of detours in people’s lives. Consequently, I found it very interesting, a few days ago, when I came across this ...

By Chef Selwyn Richards Cuisine Specialist According to a study, published by the US National Library of Medicine’s National Institute of Health, on the effects of cravings and depression, it found that, “Fast-food and commercial baked goods consumption may have ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Writer Most of us are aware of the story about Noah building the ark in preparation for the expected flood. We too have also been repeatedly warned about impending hurricanes, snowstorms and monsoons, yet far too ...

By Nabil Mockbil Guest Writer There is a rapidly growing number of seniors (aged 65 and older) in the general population. The “silver tsunami” is a term that has been coined to refer to this growing population of older people. ...