Black cats and bless yous
Having owned a black cat for years, walked under my fair share of ladders and knocked on wood more times that I can count I…
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Simpler times
It’s funny how the way you experience a holiday when you’re young is different than how you experience it later in life, like how Halloween…
Trick-or-donate
Halloween is the time of year to dress up, go out and have fun — and get scared senseless! As the years go by and…
Lagace’s Costume Corner
Halloween parties are fun. What isn’t fun is realizing hours before heading out to a party that you forgot to figure what costume you were…
Costumed couples
When a girl dresses as a Barbie for Halloween, males and females alike understand that, however fabulous Barbie may look in her tiny outfit, this…
Getting to know your Wiccan holidays
This summer a friend of mine came out of the broom closet. That is to say, she announced to the world that she was Wiccan….
Things I’ve loved
Things I’ve Loved is a celebration of things from the near or distant past, either overlooked or forgotten by the unforgiving eye of popular culture….
Speak for yourself
September of 2005, Neil Strauss’ The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists becomes a New York Times best seller. The book follows Strauss’s…
Two new speakers series hope to create discussion
Two speakers series recently launched at the University of Manitoba aim to fuel debate on some of the most prevalent issues affecting modern society. In…
Gazing into the (silicon) crystal ball
With NHL training camps and the pre-season wrapping up over the next week, hockey analysts from across the land are speculating how the season will…