What’s In Your Bathroom Cabinet?

My grandmother Myma’s last instruction as I was leaving for Roy Stephenson’s tenth birthday party was “Don’t look in the Stephenson’s medicine chest if you have to use the bathroom.”  “Okay Grandma, I won’t.” But I did.  Lots of rubber stuff I didn’t...

My Climate Story: Tiny Efforts

For 30+ years I lived on my beautiful farm on the idyllic eastern slopes of the Duck Mountains in Manitoba.  About 2 years ago, I retired from teaching and found myself with a lot of time on my hands in a fairly remote area. I now had time to focus on issues that...

My Climate Story: The Burning Barrel

Trash? Hmmm …What did we use to do with our household trash? My first memory of disposing of trash was up at the cottage in Cape Vincent NY with Grandpa and Grandma when I was a child. What could be burned was taken “up the hill” to a burning barrel back on the...