Living

IT'S never too soon to be prepared for an emergency

IMAGINE yourself in Paris. You wander the narrow streets of the Latin quarter and you're surrounded by quaint little bistros glowing with candlelight and fragrant with the aromas of wonderful, simple French cooking.

COLOURS of crimson, yellow and burnt orange adorn the fall garden thanks to September's sunshine that encouraged trees and shrubs to produce a heavy fruit set and blazing fall colours.

FOR anyone who's ever parted the curtains to see a moving van in front of the house across the street and thought, "I wonder how much they got for that place?," there's a website for you. The website SoldHomePrice.

? Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Skrypuch (Scholastic Canada) $8.99 ? Torn Apart: the Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi, by Susan Aihoshi (Scholastic Canada) $16.

WHAT to do with an extra hour in the day? Some people might have picked sleep as the best way to spend that gift of 3,600 seconds, but for me an extra hour on a Sunday meant more time to seek out good food.

I was going to give my regular column on the flu shot a pass this year. That was before we got the news that beginning in December, health-care workers in B.C.

WHAT happens when good debt goes bad? And can you change bad debt to good? The best debt: You borrow money to buy something that continues to yield personal or financial benefits - ideally long after you have paid off the debt.

A three-part Cancer Coaching Workshop, presented by Lorrie Rail and Silvia Dondera, of the National Association of Professional Cancer Coaches, Fridays, Nov. 9, 16 and 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. at John Braithwaite Community Centre.

CHAMPAGNE and sparkling wine producers enjoy a well-earned rep for coming up with clever ways to promote their product.