Here in Canada, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend.  The holiday’s got me thinking about everything I have in life.  I may not own half as much stuff as most North Americans, but I’m very aware of the abundance in my life.  As long as there’s food in my fridge and a roof over my head, […]

My friend Monty is old and set in his ways, but that’s no excuse.
For many years now, my friend Monty has been my comrade and confidant, but ever since I started seeing Sweet, a wonderful transsexual woman, Monty’s usefulness in those roles has been on the decline. The more I’ve spoken to him about […]

We have this bizarre custom here in Canada:  If somebody pushes you, shoves you, steps on your toes, YOU say sorry.  Whether it’s an accident or an act of deliberate malevolence on their part, you must say sorry when you are affronted.  That is part of Canada’s unspoken code of social conduct.
I do not abide […]

As a follow on from my last blog I thought I’d discuss Internet Dating again. Okay - I know I slated it last time. And with good reason!! It’s imperfect at the best of times, and downright crap at the worst. But for once I’m having fun with it  - mainly because I’ve had a […]

I have formulated a scientific hypothesis. Put on your thinking caps and don’t doze off, because after the academic stuff I’ll be talking about boobs.
One day I was watching Allan Gregg in Conversation on TVO. Psychiatrist and Medical Researcher Norman Doidge spoke on neural plasticity in relation to memory, stroke, Alzheimer’s, etc. and […]

Why is internet dating such a trial?
It should be easy. After all, how difficult can it be to scroll through dozens of online profiles and decide which ones sound the least dysfunctional?
Maybe I was naïve when I first started playing the game. I (stupidly) thought that people (men) were being honest when they filled […]

I’ve been writing for a long while now.
I wrote silly runaway adventure stories when I was six or seven, and started writing “poetry” around that age, too, and kept it up all through school, and on until I was in my early twenties.
Four years ago I started my first novel, and now three have been […]

I remember as a child, waiting impatiently for school to begin, and now as mother of three hectic children, I still wait impatiently for school to resume, but now for other reasons. After a long and hot summer, I think I am just as excited as kids are about school being back in session. […]

I’m afraid I won’t even be thinking about writing for the next two weeks or so. I, my friends, am an unashamed Olympophile. “Oh, they’re all professional athletes,” you say. “We shouldn’t watch because of China’s abusive attitudes towards dissidents and religion.” “It’s all tainted by drugs anyway.” “There’s too […]

My latest novella, Rose’s Garden, was written about a friend of mine. It isn’t a blow-by-blow account of her divorce by any means, and nor would she want anyone to think she had a hot and steamy affair with a younger man in the midst of the nuclear fallout that followed! But I did take […]