How about a movie to go with that dinner yesterday? A digital dessert of sorts. While not organic, they all do feature living, breathing, organic beings, aka us humans. So with that in mind, here are a few movies available on DVD that may be a little less well known, but that are all among my personal favourites.  Continue reading...

I saw a commercial today that actually made an interesting point. It spoke of the much greater frequency of the question, “What’s for dinner?” rather than, “What’s in dinner?” Change one simple little preposition and the entire meaning changes. While advertising a product I would still not consider all that healthy, it brought up a  Continue reading...

…Oh my. Yet again, we can learn so much from our fellow animals. Three animals from three different continents have become their own little family, the best of friends. When they were only about 2 months old,  Leo the lion, Shere Khan the tiger, and Baloo the bear, were all rescued during a drug bust  Continue reading...

While we now have access to an almost unimaginable wealth of information via the internet, one unavoidable consequence is determining the accuracy of that information. Anyone, and his brother or sister, including me, can proffer information on any number of subjects. The challenge is to weed out the accurate from the inaccurate on the web.  Continue reading...

There is perhaps nothing more subjective than art in its many forms. Two people can look or listen to the same thing, and see or hear a completely different thing. Thankfully, we each get to have our own artistic favourites. One that I have held dear since I first heard it a few years ago, is Opera Australia’s 1993 production of La Boheme, directed by Baz Luhrmann. Starring David Hobson and Cheryl Barker, it was recorded live and is available on DVD.  Continue reading...

If you’ve been here in the last couple of days you’ve likely noticed a lot of different blog format changes, not to mention times when the blog wasn’t even accessible. The feature and design changes I originally spoke of sort of took on a life of their own. One planned idea led to a dozen  Continue reading...

While not the player I have, a nifty little one like nothing I’ve seen before was unveiled in Las Vegas at the International CES earlier this month. What's so different is that Samsung’s Ice Touch actually has a see-through screen. While it is apparently not yet available in North America, one can see a brief demo of it from that consumer electronics show.  Continue reading...

One of my first hands on successes with homeopathy came after a fall on the ice one winter night more than ten years ago. Slipping, feet flying out from under me, I landed so hard the wind was literally knocked out of me. I actually felt nauseous. Fortunately I was on my way home. Unfortunately,  Continue reading...

Have you ever felt that there are so many interesting things to talk or think about, that you simply don’t know where to start? That’s how I was feeling earlier today, trying to decide what to write about first. Since you are reading this now, and thank you for that, you can see I finally  Continue reading...

If you were looking for Elizabeth Ely’s Harp Page (my previous incarnation as a harpist) it’s alive and well offering sound clips, CDs, and little harp ramblings just as before. However, it has now moved to a new location. www.members.shaw.ca/elizabethely What you will now find at www.elizabethely.com aka Elizabeth Ely dot Com are the wanderings  Continue reading...