In the month recognized for candy hearts and all things that beat wildly in our chest, Susan Lucci, aka Erica Kane, from the Soap Opera ‘All My Children’ went public about her recent heart scare. Thank you, Susan. She spoke about not realizing her arteries were blocked, experiencing severe pressure in her chest and blowing […]
A life without checklists is like slow dancing to Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ It starts predictable even romantic but then transitions into a melody with no possible dance steps to follow — an excellent metaphor for life. I’ve become the Queen of Lists. I never use to be. Birthed out of necessity; my allegiance […]
I guess the memo never went out that it’s a New Year and with it, the idea of a clean slate. My news feed on January 1st continued to pour in with the same thread of dread it possessed the previous year. Fake news, violence and environmental calamities appearing in the top five articles. The […]
As a child, we got our Christmas tree a block away from St. Peter’s Church. Each year an argument ensued between my folks and the guy they negotiated with who they affectionately called ‘the robber.” He was notorious for selling overpriced Christmas trees to the locals in the shadow of the enormous crucifix perched high […]
Since I was a little girl, I wanted to be in the Santa Claus Parade. It was deeply nostalgic for me. It was my special time spent with my dad where he could feel like a kid while I revelled in the magic. The parade left an indomitable mark on my life. Though I was […]
I grew up in a noisy Eastern European family that only knew spirited discussions around the dinner table. Our relatives would debate over a spread filled with food and drink. The tone was loud to compete with the lively conversations happening simultaneously. Once the night was over, everyone would hug, kiss and part ways until […]
It’s that marvellous time of the year where my breasts get squeezed into pancakes you’d find at an IHOP. My biennial mammogram. Sounds like candygram but not so sweet. I arrive at my appointment wondering whether a guy would ever agree to get his family jewels squished between two acrylic square panels resembling s’mores. I […]
We are currently in an incarnation of the Prohibition Act in Canada – this time its weed. It was bound to happen, and it’s unfolding in the second largest country on the planet. A peacekeeping, compassionate and apologetic nation who is the custodian to a quiet hip quotient. Hosts to the largest Gay Pride Parade […]
We met the good, old-fashioned way. In a bar. It was a time when Tinder was inconceivable and computer dating not yet invented. I’m grateful our courtship was void of technology because at least no one could record our first date. It was an event ripe to become a sketch on Saturday Night Live. It was […]
Tis the season that the young adults head back to formal education or as I call it “drinking-camp.” Despite the fact I still had two cubs at home, I wept ad nauseam when our eldest attended University. I cried less once our middle son attended and with our daughter, I already had a cargo van […]
