Life

I use every opportunity I can to exercise, and if you are anything like me, you’re in the midst of spring-cleaning fever. I started by freshening up my bedroom. I exchanged my heavy winter comforter for a nice, bright, light-weight version.

For years, the neighbourhood florist was the go-to place for special-occasion arrangements and the occasional pick-me-up of cut flowers.

LOS ANGELES — Vince Vaughn has bought a house for $3.925 million in an area of Los Angeles one might not normally associate with actors — La Cañada Flintridge.

LOS ANGELES — A day at Disneyland is a marathon, and the visitors lining up in the plaza outside the park were prepared to make it to the finish. They had on sneakers and sweats and packs (both fanny and back).

MINNEAPOLIS — Johnny Woodside’s cycling clothes are almost as cool as his name. The 30-year-old Minneapolis hydrogeologist dons flannel shirts, Red Wing boots and has a tapered moustache. Forget the blinding neon spandex get-up.

When I had my first baby, I looked forward to my first Mother’s Day the way a child anticipates Christmas morning.

Last week, a parent wrote: “My 17-year-old has been smoking pot for several years. Since she didn’t get enough allowance to support this habit, she had been stealing money at home, including from her siblings’ savings.

“Properly, we should read for power … The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” — American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) “Well, something’s lost and something’s gained in living every day.” — Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell (b.

First clue you’re at a drum festival: the prevalence of earplugs. Actually that was the second clue. The first was the great thunderous clamour greeting visitors to the downtown Marriott Hotel last Sunday.

The lilac, with its pale purple blooms and gentle scent, has lost its place as a top flowering Mother’s Day gift — to the hanging basket, Victoria nurseries say.