Is It Time to Hit the Reset Button?
What a year this has been! Now Newsweek and CNN declares “The Recession is Over!”
Well, not so quick. There’s a problem with this wonderful statement.
Upon reading or hearing this wonderful news, most people expect that we’re “back to normal”. And we’re not.
Unemployment is still high. People are just barely deciding to open their wallets and businesses are still suffering.
Have you been out shopping lately? It seems that EVERYTHING is on sale. A clothing place I frequent, had a sale where you buy one suit, get two free. They also had 50% off of all clearance prices. Sales on top of sales. It’s all crazy! I wonder who actually pays full price for anything any more.
Then the government chimes in...
Ever Heard of Deep-Fried Easter Eggs?
Ever wonder why an egg started to represent the Religious Holiday of Easter? As far back as I can remember, we got chocolate eggs for Easter. Then Cadbury Easter Creme Eggs came along and it got even better!
Some families take the time to dye real hard-boiled eggs as part of their Easter rituals.
In Canada, we didn’t have plastic eggs with chocolate inside, they were always solid or hollow chocolate eggs. Now that we live in the US, we have adopted the plastic eggs -- and it’s fun to discover what inside.
Speaking of mystery, why Easter eggs? Is this a Christian tradition? What can we learn from the history? An old Latin proverb says, “All life comes from an egg”. I...