My daughter will be starting her third year of ski lessons next week. For her, this means spending Saturday afternoons barreling down the tiniest of hills (at the highest of prices) laughing hysterically, and for me it means having 90 minutes to myself. All you parents out there know how exciting that is – so exciting that the first year she began taking lessons, I booked snowboarding lessons for myself. After all, why shouldn’t I barrel down the hill [...]

By the time I moved back here over three years ago, it had been almost ten years since I lived in Westmount. When I left, I was sporting a hairstyle that can only be described as East German chic, which had people mistaking me for my brother more often than not. I was also fifteen pounds heavier and had never plucked my eyebrows (you will note by my picture that I have remedied this).

I left Canada to follow my future [...]

A friend of mine just had her first child. Before the baby was born, my friend Lauren had plans of renting a villa in Italy when her baby was 9 months old, where she would knead, bake and eat homemade focaccia while lounging in the shade of a barrel of Chianti – or something like that.

Her little girl is now 3 weeks old and due to intense sleep deprivation, Lauren can no longer spell the word Italy, let alone plan, [...]