When you return those pants, the planet pays the price
January is a time to redo, revise and recommit. It is also the time to return things.We can click the return button first on the season’s passive-aggressive and otherwise unwanted gifts. An upgraded...
Have some sympathy
I’m beginning to feel sorry for sympathy. It was once such an honourable impulse. Humble, sincere, caring. Sympathy was meant for people who suffered or had less. In its most modest form, a sympathy...
What we lose to shoplifting
Few shopping experiences are more intimate than a visit to the pharmacy. The contents of your basket may disclose waxy ears, hemorrhoids, insomnia, constipation, a messy rash or the compulsion to try...
A lightbulb went off
When Thomas Edison was working on the incandescent lamp in 1879, he purportedly said, “We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this...
The cost of going Cashless
Six dollars and 50 cents is a lot to pay for a scoop of ice cream, no matter how artisanal. But that’s the cost at Van Leeuwen’s 20 ice cream shops in New York City. It’s especially egregious...