December 2015
November, 2015
Conversations
THE CHARITABLE CHOICE
A Philanthropist’s Guide to Holiday Giving
’Tis the season for giving, and in the spirit of the holidays, many people are looking beyond their shopping lists for ways to… Read
City
LACOMBE PARK SPIRITS
Be of Good Cheer
Lacombe Park Spirits at a Glance Location: 202, 506A St. Albert Trail Owners: Karem El-Halaby, Jeff Halaby, Sam Halabi and Raad Choufi Specialties:… Read
Living
Family Game Night
Put some jolly in your hollies
Most of us have family stories that include board games. There are the relatives who marked face cards, the siblings who threw… Read
Going Nutty
Good Things come in small packages. And nuts are Nature’s perfect example. Loaded with heart-healthy fats, fibre, vitamins, minerals and protein, nuts… Read
Funny Business
On Our Bookshelves
They say that humour is like music: you either hear the beats or you don’t. So selecting a list of “funny” books… Read
FROM THE EDITOR
To give. Rumour has it, it’s way better than receiving. But if you ask me, they both take a comfy back seat to a less celebrated aspect of gift giving—the wrapping. No, I’m not talking Christmas carols and too much eggnog. I’m talking paper—presents lovingly wrapped with care and an affection for hospital corners that borders on unnatural. While some people consider that a giant waste of time, for me, it’s meditative: a time to think about the person I’m wrapping for and to hope that they’ll feel extra spoiled by my efforts. You can imagine then, that when it came to creating the props for our wrapping-paper article, I was all in.
I cleared the kitchen table, plugged in the hot-glue gun and slipped into my happy place. Scissors rhythmically cutting through paper, beautiful yarn spooling off the roll, the cat leaping up like a ninja, the horror in both our eyes, my wine flying across the room and, oh yeah, wasn’t there a hot-glue gun in this story? Better question! Do you have ANY IDEA what it’s like to be momentarily hot-glued to a cat? I’ll let you guess how that went…
Yup, the holidays are for making memories. And we hope that’s what we’ll inspire with this month’s issue: ideas for family game nights, recipes to share and new ways to feel connected (sans glue-gun).
Be of good cheer, and see you next year.
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