January and June are the months I’m usually reaching the bottom of my Xanax bottle and calling the Dr. for a refill. Mid July hits and I find…
I’ve recently had to face an implicit bias I’ve had for decades. I believed that being “good” meant weak, naive and docile; “evil” was strong, powerful and determined.…
Dating is a small town, in your 30s is a bizarre experience and definitely isn’t for the weak. Everyone judges you for everything you do. It is looked…
I paid $300 for an appointment with the menopause doctor. I was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. I was also sick of hearing my family…
According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, over the period of 2012-2013 (the most recent statistics we could find), more than 40,000 women in Canada had a hysterectomy. If those numbers blow your mind, we hope you’re sitting down right now because the National Women’s Health Network in the United States reports a staggering
Since my double mastectomy, I often have phantom boob pain in spite of the fact that there is no tittie tissue connecting to any nerves. I’m caught by…
I’ve always considered Valentine’s Day to be among the worst of the Hallmark Holidays. After all, nothing says love like a box of cheap chocolates and some flowers…
I have developed an irrational hatred of Ted Lasso. As in the uber-popular, almost universally praised TV show about a doofy guy named Ted Lasso who makes peoples’…
Forty-five years ago a house fire made me want to be a better person. From Kindergarten to Grade 4, I attended a small elementary school in a small…
6:15am: Alarm clock wakes me and I gently punch the snooze repeatedly until I feel it has learned its lesson. 6:40am: Today is the day I’m going to…