After signing a five-year contract with American Idol, Ellen DeGeneres will be leaving after only one season. DeGeneres felt that it wasn’t the right fit for her and said “It was a difficult decision to make, but my work schedule became more than I bargained for.”

Is your book club looking for its next literary challenge? If you’ve already exhausted the better-known classics of CanLit, try these club-worthy Canadian titles.

By Bonnie Baker Cowan
Hudson, my 11-year-old grandson, was sitting on the deck at the cottage last week looking out over the lake when he turned to me and said, “ I have such great memories of this place when I was a kid.”Naturally, I questioned such a startling reminiscence, asking why he wasn’t a kid anymore. “Well, gremmie, I like to do more adult things now.” I wondered if it was really all over, those great childhood experiences or had he just become an old soul? It worked out for the best later, when I asked him to help his grandfather put the top on the boat. When he complained, I reminded him that he wanted to do adult things now and putting the top on the boat was definitely an adult thing.

Give this scrumptious recipe a try, courtesy of Sir John’s Seafood & Steaks in Myrtle Beach.

1 cup butter, softened
¼ tsp. salt
½ cup powdered sugar
2 cups all purpose flour

Deepak and Jate at the temple with begging bowls. Photo courtesy of Deepak

By Deepak Chopra

This lifetime of ours is transient as autumn clouds.
To watch the birth and death of beings
Is like looking at the movements of a dance.
A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky.
Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
— Buddha

A government plan to end the compulsory retirement age will be revealed today according to an article on The Guardian’s website.