Old dogs + new tricks about aging
Calgary Herald, Dec 7, 2015: One of the first times I took my dog for a walk he saw a bunny and took off. There wasn’t much I could do about […]
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The dog days of middle age
MORE Magazine: When my kids were little and food would fly off the table at every meal, a friend tried to talk me into getting a dog. We were sitting in […]
The “P” word (for porn)
MORE Magazine: We tell one another just about everything when it comes to our intimate lives. Why then are we so reluctant to speak the naked truth about pornography?
Mother knew %$#^& best
MORE Magazine: Despite losing her at a young age, Jennifer Allford cannot forget her mom’s words of wisdom — expletives included
HIgh school reunions: Blast from the past
MORE Magazine: It’s about a three-hour drive to my old high school — from Calgary straight up Highway 2 to Edmonton. It’s all rolling prairie meets big blue sky, but […]
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 […]
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 […]
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