My mother is not the kind of mother I need. And I am not the kind of daughter she wants. That makes us “even” in a cruel sort of way. But what has become apparent to me in the past several weeks is that she…
Last year I was advised to get with the social media program, and develop a Twitter following, if I was ever going to make it as a relationship writer. So now I tweet with promiscuous abandon, following random strangers and celebs in the hopes they…
After I pumped out two kids in less than two years, my husband and I decided it was time to take birth control more seriously. We opted for the barrier method. The barriers were the two small kids who slept curled up between us. God…
You know the art of cooking has reached rock bottom when young adults can’t conquer making Kraft Dinner. I was reading about one 20-year-old woman who was asked to make KD for the kids she was babysitting. She boiled the water, and then dumped all…
I have always had disdain for people who blindly follow the crowd. You know the ones I am talking about—those who sublimate their own desires to conform to societal expectations. They could be your friend the bank employee who would rather be a yoga instructor,…
I made a strategic mistake yesterday. I opened my metaphorical kimono and revealed a little too much to my husband. Sure, I know that honesty and transparency are important in any relationship, but so is a little bit of mystery. This is even truer in…
Alice and I have been friends for a long time. With busy professional and family lives, we don’t get together nearly often enough. But it doesn’t matter because we always resume from where we left off, and never run out of things to talk about….
It has been a quiet Saturday. My younger son Micah is in Cuba for some fun in the sun with his high school graduating class. My older son Jake is ensconced hundreds of miles away at university. This leaves my husband John and me all…
My mother-in-law Eleanor is a vivacious woman, a former school teacher who at 84 still insists on the proper use of English. You do not want to mix up the use of “who” and “whom” in her presence, although she will kindly but firmly correct…
If one more person tells me they have finally found their “soul mate” I am going to slit my wrists. I am gob smacked that almost 50% of people in a recent Globe and Mail poll said they believe in love at first sight, and…