Bookclubs gone wild
MORE Magazine: We all know affordable childcare, honest repair shops and, God knows, a good man are hard to find. But there is another elusive dream that many of us long […]
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Old news: Ageism in the workplace
MORE Magazine: Forty-six-year-old Sheryl Campbell was talking with a colleague in his twenties one sunny afternoon when it hit her with the force of a late labour contraction: I could be […]
Cougar: That other ‘C’ word
MORE Magazine: I was a cougar. I mean, I guess I was. I was pushing 40 and he was 27. We dated for a year. He told me he was […]
Old friends, new friends + the ones in between
MORE Magazine: Recently, a childhood friend sent me one of those emails filled with images that take you back to being a kid in the 1970s: Holly Hobbie in her giant […]
“You’re fired!” Now what?
MORE Magazine: “You’re fired!”
Your stylist is one of your most important relationships
MORE Magazine: Mane Trust
Driving in Calgary: All roads lead to gridlock
Avenue Magazine: Way back in the history of another boom town of a million people, ancient Rome, there was a town planner, architect, engineer and design guru named Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. […]
Of Steinbeck, soil and Salinas
Toronto Star May 8, 2014, Salinas, California–We all know where lettuce comes from; the produce aisle for most of the year and for those of us lucky enough to […]
The Gilded Age to the Next Gen: Summer in the Berkshires
Toronto Star, July 2, 2014, Lenox, Massachusetts–Dozens of pink roses spill over each other in the middle of the table, hiding the silver salt-and-pepper shakers, as we sit down […]
Get lost in Boston
Toronto Star July 23, 2014, Boston, Mass–The conversations and the good humour start pretty much immediately after you get off the plane in Boston. A chatty Albanian bus driver […]
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