“Here I come to save the day!” — Writer Ann Litts recently wrote a wonderful essay about being content with aging — accepting where you are right now, and enjoying the rest of the ride. I entirely agree. And yet . . . there are things I miss about being a kid. I miss my tree There was an old tree, by…

Pardon my prosopagnosia — Brad Pitt said he’d like to meet me. Sort of. He recently told CNN he believes he suffers from prosopagnosia (face blindness), and said, “I wanna meet another [person with it].” Here I am, Brad! Over here! Although, what’s the point of us meeting, really? Brad’s never going to remember…

A true tale of nuptial nightmare — I wouldn’t say I’m a perfectionist. Not exactly. I will admit, some people say the old joke — She walked into a bar, and complained the bar should have been set higher — may apply to me. I maintain those people are judgy. What mother wouldn’t want the wedding of…

Think YOU’VE done some tough stuff? Think again! — Dear reader, you may have had a varied and interesting career, but I doubt you can say you’ve administered an enema to the business end of a constipated rhino. Ever been elbow-deep in a lion’s throat? Or had Safari ants crawl up your pants? I didn’t think so. Meet Dr…

Oddball animal sex facts, just for the fun of it — “Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it” … or so goes famous the Cole Porter lyric. But exactly HOW some critters “get it on” may leave you gobsmacked. May I mist you? Who needs a spritz of Chanel N°5 to set the mood? Not the porcupine. The male simply sprays…

How was yours? — “World’s Best Mom,” proclaim a good number of the greeting card choices on my local supermarket’s racks these days. With North American Mother’s Day fast approaching, greeting card companies seem to believe there are many qualifiers for the “World’s Best” title. Some famous, fabulous moms Scientist Marie Curie would certainly qualify as an extraordinary…

Meet Myrna — but be on your best behaviour. This outspoken “Internet Grandma” does not suffer fools gladly. Fictional Grandma Myrna Tellingheusen has been cracking up her Twitter account followers— all 153K of them! — with her snarky and satirical pearls of wisdom for years. …

“Not in my back yard!” That was my reaction when I learned — three days after we’d signed to purchase a bungalow in a middle-class class neighbourhood in Kitchener, Ontario— that the Feds had decided to build a new prison for women across the street. A realtor-friend speculated that our…

My husband and I are celebrating 35 years of marriage this month. It’s been good. Great, even. And yet … there’s a certain conversation that comes up with “fingernails-scraping-a-blackboard” frequency. Him: Have you seen my [insert object name here]? Me: It’s wherever you left it. Him: I just had it. Me…