by Jane | May 29, 2018 | Newsletter
No one in Ontario can deny that spring is here when local asparagus arrives in the stores. I’m grateful for asparagus from Mexico but when spring arrives I anxiously wait for the stores to announce that local Ontario asparagus is ready to eat. Green is the most common...
by Jane | Nov 10, 2017 | Newsletter
Recently I attended a leadership conference with the theme “Together is Better”. We all received a book called “Together is Better – a Little Book of Inspiration” by Simon Sinek. In the book Sinek uses a playground as metaphor for the organizations we might work for,...
by Jane | Jun 27, 2017 | Newsletter
I have a very small garden with some favourite herbs. One of them is sage. I love sage, both watching it grow in my garden and, to eat. The best flavour description is “pine-like” with hints of eucalyptus and citrus. It has a great aroma too. Sage...
by Jane | Apr 12, 2017 | Newsletter
If you are a regular reader of our blogs, you will remember the Welcome Blog (July 2015) in which I told readers they could expect a variety of blog topics, including some that are more personal, with our overall goal to write about things that are interesting,...
by Jane | Mar 23, 2017 | Newsletter
This is a follow up of sorts to an earlier post, Dec 19, 2016, on the Gluten-Free Dilemma and how we manage gluten-free diets in our nursing homes. Today, an interesting article crossed my desk about a new study determining a link between a protein in wheat that may...