As I grow older audaciously, I also grow more vulnerable. I often think that is at the heart, the root, the core muscle of why I cry so easily. This daily phenomenon of tear...
When I was younger. So much younger than today. I used to take care of my body for vanity reasons. In some ways, I still do. But let’s face it. Being an old broad, is a humbling...
One of the beautiful things about my life right now is the pace. Not so much the pace itself, but the fact that I get to set it. Every day. Even every moment if I want to. And...
Today we raise our fists high and put our hands together in celebration of our Feature Girl Warrior, successful entrepreneur and performance marketing specialist Debbie Chabot,...
I’ve never liked talking about my age. In fact, I wrote a piece a few years ago about never leading with your age. Anything else but that. I believed then (and I still do) that...
About a year ago I had a reckoning. A come to Jesus moment. A walk-the-talk epiphany. It was a ‘practice what I preached’ directive to give myself the proverbial kick in the...
Today we raise our fists high and put our hands together in celebration of our Feature Girl Warrior, Self-Love Coach Nisha Goyal, known as The Self Love Maven, who has journeyed...
Today we raise our fists high and put our hands together in celebration of our Feature Girl Warrior, HR and Marketing professional, Zahra de Grey, a second-generation Canadian who...
A few weeks ago While combing through Old black and white photos Stored in a tattered shoebox That once housed new boots I came across this sweet little card Three inches squared...
I think healers Come into our life At unexpected times In unexpected ways Sometimes they look Like a lover Or a friend A stranger A dog. Sometimes they look Like a...
As far back as I can remember, I wrote. Private young-girl thoughts in secret diaries, then poetry filled with teenage angst and dark poetry peppered with profanity. I wrote daily letters to God in Hilroy notebooks, short stories and poems for kids, sad country songs, and raw truth-telling stories about life growing up in a blue-collar neighbourhood in Northwestern Ontario. These are those stories and poems.
