Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 9:52AM 
by George Klassen
For a long time, I didn’t believe that planned obsolescence was a thing. I have concluded, as you may read in my preceding article, that planned obsolescence is a thing; it is 100 years old, its greedy wasteful hands are dug deep into our society, and it will be difficult to remove.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 9:37AM 
by George Klassen
For a long time, I didn’t believe that planned obsolescence was a thing. Recently, I read that it was a thing, as early as the 1920s, albeit not by that name.
Planned obsolescence is a policy of designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a predetermined period of time upon which it ceases to function well, completely ceases to function, or might be perceived as unfashionable.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 10:13AM 
by Elbert Toews
The use of alcohol was never an issue in my growing-up years. Being from a poor family with an invalid father, the purchasing of alcohol was never entertained, at least not to my knowledge.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 8:06AM 
By Leah Bouchard
People have hand-crafted with wool for centuries. The beautiful aspect about traditional handwork is that you don’t need a ton of special skill and expensive equipment to get started.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 9:45AM 
by Gary Martens
My New Year’s resolution was to change my mind about something with the intent of getting closer to the truth. When I did find new information about something, hopefully I would then change my mind.
First, I had to ask myself, “What is truth?”