Why didn’t someone warn me that once I hit the middle age years, my skin would lose its elasticity faster than a stretched-out rubber band? Wrinkles, I understand…but…
I hate to say it but I have done or said all of these to my daughter over the last year and a half. Hidden the outfits I…
Parenting is a strange endeavor. Without any instruction, testing or training we are thrust into a foreign land and entrusted to take on the most challenging and consequential…
There are two questions you should never ask a woman. The first question is: “when are you due?” The second question is: “when are you going to have…
After careful examination I have determined that 63% of my parenting is motivated by guilt. I feel guilty about that. I have also discovered, though, that while guilt…
This season Manulife is creating a movement of gratitude and paying it forward kindness during the Christmas season. We hope that by sharing our stories (as varied as…
When people ask me what I’m getting my baby for Christmas, I tell them the truth. I’m probably just going to give him a new paper bag from…
Every once in a while Little Miss Perfect needs to take a break from self-deprecation and spend some time (as I once heard someone say) “depreciating” others. Today’s…
Dear Daughter, Take my hand. And please listen. I’m writing this not to let you know how much I love you, and I do. So much. Not to…
Today I’d like to tell you a little story. It’s a sad story, really, a tragedy in the Greek tradition you might say. A story about hope and…