For four decades I lived what I considered to be a contented life of a city girl in my beloved Toronto. The only time I…

As the sun streams through the window in my room, I smile. Yes! I now have my own room, three little words that light up…

I read a very good quote the other day which said: "Motherhood is not the graveyard of your dreams". In fact, for many, motherhood is…

James Joyce used to call them “Epiphanies”: sudden revelations in which objects of common life become “revealing” of a deeper world. A ray of sun,…

I joined 'She Who Dares' on the cusp of my fortieth birthday. A women’s outdoor pursuit group, the only one of its kind in the…

In life, we have the ability to turn our stumbling blocks into, stepping-stones. In my twenties, life pulled the plug on my aspirations of earning…