My lucky number is seventeen. I am hoping this continues as this weekend the Carpenter and I celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary (and by celebrate, I mean give each other a…

The thick frost of the early morning draped the windows of my car in a white veil of crystals. Beautiful. How very Canadian to be excited by the familiar sound…

Life is full of choices. Gratitude is one of them. This got me thinking that perhaps this Thanksgiving, I am grateful for everything I don’t have, but have always actually wanted….

Not all funerals are sad. Sometimes a death in the family brings with it long over-due forgiveness and, as a result, closure. It offers peace to those left behind. Most importantly,…

I couldn’t stop myself. It was as if I was possessed by the spirits of cranky ghosts of shopping trips past. I became that mother. In my defense, back to…

This is not a review. This is a recommendation. Go see Matilda The Musical at Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre. Trust me on this one. We nicknamed our daughter Broadway Baby…

Please stop saying summer is almost over. It’s not. There is plenty of summer ahead, okay, so just simmer down. Don’t rush through it. Ignore the back-to-school sales and ads…

The country was in crisis. The Referendum was looming. The daily news was electric and for once, it seemed all Canadians were engaged in the issues. And I was in…

Look out Sin City. The Carpenter will be landing any minute now and he is unsupervised. Worse, he is surrounded by a bunch of construction workers attending a “conference” about…

It turns out, I don’t like camping.I found this out the only way possible: I took my kids camping for two nights in Collingwood. Turns out my kids don’t like camping…