Before there was Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda – there was Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia. These four ladies – the OG Sex and the City, if you will – may have had more miles on their engines and lines on their faces than Carrie and her crew but there was nothing these silver-coiffed beauties…
Grape, pink, the ever elusive banana. Those were the popsicle flavours that defined my sticky sweet childhood summers. Windsor summers got so hot that as soon as you stepped foot outside of Chuck’s – the corner store at the top of my street (I still call it that even though Chuck is long gone and…
I started a new tradition last year – but really it was started by Aunt Pat years ago. Every January, I could look forward to Aunt Pat’s crabby email entitled “Merry Bitchmas” where she would list out everything that went wrong over the holidays – anything that pissed her off and caused her grief. This…
I thought I was the cool mom. I thought wrong. Sure, I’m a tad strict and I sometimes over-react. But still. I wear the coolest t-shirts around. I can dab. I can kinda/sorta floss. Oh yeah – and I’m hilarious. Lately, I’ve discovered just how un-cool I am. In fact, I’m apparently a downright, straight-up embarrassment.…
Christmas is soon upon us – and if you’re anything like me – then you are completely stressed out and counting down the days until December 26th. Nothing gets my blood boiling like Christmas carols in November. For any of you out there looking for some last minute quirky little gifts for co-workers, acquaintances, your…
When it comes to matters of kindness, kindness matters. It means something to us, it stays with us – much more than anything that hurts us. I put out a call – I wanted to know the kindest thing ever done for you by a stranger – and I was inundated with snippets from lives…
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, going to McDonald’s was a treat. My brother and I learned that McDonald’s wasn’t a place you asked to go to. It didn’t work that way in our house. Mom and Dad decided when we went there – and we were ecstatic whenever this occasion occurred. This was…
It’s been a while since I stepped foot in a gym – nine years to be exact. And sometimes I miss it – the glorious smell of sweat delicately hanging in the air, the whir of pedals as spandex-clad women go nowhere fast and of course . . . the drama. No matter what day…
I wanted to write an article focussing on compassion, kindness and friendship – and to do this subject justice, it would have to be about a man named Todd* (*not his real name). It needed to be about Todd. It’s taken me 25 years to realize that compassion can be a puzzling human emotion. Even…
Over the years I have cleaned to pretty much every standard on the spectrum of house cleanliness, from my student days of dust bunnies the size of the Easter Bunny, to having my first child and sterilizing the entire house to laboratory standards. Our last house was for sale for a full year, thanks to…
