Sometimes, life hands you lemons and you make it into lemonade. And then you food blog about the making of delicious lemonade and attempt to find a new…
Children are, by nature, curious creatures. Often this curiosity translates into moments of intense embarrassment for their parents. It pretty much starts the moment they enter the world,…
With the recent changes in the Ontario provincial curriculum regarding sexual health education in primary and secondary schools, I’ve seen a lot of conversations happening around the topic…
I didn’t have a “real job” until I was 15 years old. Until then I fattened my wallet with change I never gave back to my Mom and…
Like a lot of parents we know, my husband and I both work. We have jobs that require us to be at our desks at 8:30am and…
My days as the parent of a high school kid are dwindling quicker than a Kardashian lipstick collection. My youngest child will be graduating in a matter of…
I believe in the presence of souls and spirits. Maybe that makes me spiritual, perhaps it makes me a whack job. Regardless, I’m sticking to my theory and here’s why. On a girl’s weekend years ago, my friend had organized a reading with a medium for each of us. I head into new experiences with
Couples who have broken up discuss the details of their relationship’s demise in hushed tones, like clinicians at a post mortem of a bloody, dismembered corpse. “It was the lifestyle,”…
I see you looking in my direction with shock, awe and the same curiosity you have when a semi is on fire on the side of the highway.…
“Be careful that you don’t blow your hand off!” As a child, I played with firecrackers a lot. Christmas and New Years, 4th of July and Memorial Day,…
The phone woke me up; it was my husband calling from downstairs. “You have to bring Erin to the Emergency Room. “She called the suicide hotline; she doesn’t have a plan, but she called.” I’m in shock and respond to him, “That’s impossible, she just spent the day in New York City with the Girl
Post-divorce I became “Broken Jenny.” I didn’t know where to start to pick up the pieces of my former life. I had no idea who I was, what…
Bullshit can sneak up on you. One moment life is copacetic and suddenly you are wading through a cesspool of liquid injustice, manipulation, and general fuckery. At some…
This world is bleeping crazy. And not in a good way. When it comes to watching the nightly news on TV, my husband and I had to invent…