Opinion

In the past four months, I’ve taken on a personal challenge to get more creative in the kitchen and try recipes outside the norm for me (read: pasta, meat and potatoes, sandwich).

Last week, Alberta Health Services (AHS) sent a memo to staff at the Airdrie and Cochrane’s urgent care centres that the equivalent of two full-time nurse practitioners at both clinics would lose their jobs on March 31.

Re: “Local woman continues fight to muzzle pit bulls,” Jan. 11 Dear Christina, I read the front-page article in the Airdrie City View a couple weeks ago about dog fights and what’s going on in our community regarding them.

Have you ever had to cut someone some slack? I have been waiting for the last hour or so for my son to be finished his college class so that I can text him and apologize. I strongly suggested that he should work on a paper that is due next week.

Here are a few words hockey fans thankfully won’t have to hear for another eight to 10 years: collective bargaining, hockey-related revenue, memorandum of understanding and, most importantly, lockout.

For about a month-and-a-half each year, I am without one of my loves. She disappears from the World Wide Web, hidden in the busy hallways of large garages worldwide.

Dear Tammy, My husband and I have been arguing a lot and I am not sure if I want to be with him or not. This has been making me feel unhappy and I don’t know what to do.

Looking back, I can see the signs were always there I just didn’t recognize them. I told you during my first week on the job a few things about myself and I probably took up the most space talking about my cat.

Tick, tock. The celestial clock keeps on ticking and our world has made another trip around the sun. This time, though, the Mayans claim this latest planetary revolution means the end of the world as we know it. I hope they are right.

My name is Karen MacDonald, and today is the beginning of the rest of my life. I’m a survivor. Survivor of what you may ask... Well my life didn’t start out so great. I have experienced, as most people have…the good, the bad and the downright ugly.