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Abby Langer loves Oreos. Those black-and-white discs of hard and soft, vanilla and chocolatetheyve no rival as far as Langer, a dietitian, is concerned. When the body craves an Oreo, an apple wont do.When a client tells her that they cant stop thinking about Oreos withas any careful checker of food labels would know 120 calories for two cookies and commonly maligned ingredients like sugar, high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavours, Langers response: Just eat the @#$%ing Oreo.The expletive is hers. She likes a good swearword for emphasis. She uses them often in her new book Good Food, Bad...

  Everything started since I was born…yes! that early. I was born in Tehran while my parents were still living with my maternal grandparents. I have spent one year with them, and it was the best time I ever had. Everybody was treating me like a queen and I couldn’t ask for more. After one year, my dad decided to move to his parents’ state. He hated Tehran and still does, so as soon as he graduated, he went back to his town. That was the first travel of my life with my toddler clothes packed neatly and sad farewells...

  You do not know love, but love knows you. It is only in love knowing you that you can know love. I do not mean being loved by another. There is no such thing. Only that the door of love has opened within yourself. When love finds you, you know. It is an alternate reality to the mode of daily life. It is a highly refined, spiritual state that mystics tell us in passionate detail. What is love? Love is the fresh cool breeze. The clean window. The light at dusk. It is the present moment without expectation. Positive...

The Greater Victoria School District is advising parents and guardians about school registration beginning next week. Upcoming registration periods include early French immersion (Jan. 9 to 13), English kindergarten (Jan. 23 to 27), late French immersion (Jan. 23 to 27) and the K–12 transfer process (Feb. 6 to 10). All student registrations can be completed online at: https://www.sd61.bc.ca/registration/online-registration/. Parents and guardians will need their student’s confirmed catchment school and required documents to register online. Catchment schools can be determined by using the SD61 school locator at https://bit.ly/3Coklbb. Registering a student in any school requires providing school-age eligibility, proof of citizenship...

Choo, choo! The best collection of train books for kids! If you have a train-obsessed child in your life, then you will want to read these terrific train books. Includes both fiction and non-fiction train-themed books for your reader! All aboard!! Disclosure: Amazon Affiliate Links included. All opinions express are my own. The Best Train Books for Kids As a kindergarten teacher, I would read a variety of fiction and non-fiction literature out loud to the children in my classroom on a daily basis. Studies have shown that there are numerous benefits to reading out loud to your children including...