With strangely coincidental timing, the trial of the disgraced CBC radio host, Jian Ghomeshi, accused of assaulting women he worked with and dated, begins on Monday, February 1, just in time for Valentine’s day. Dating is almost always a challenging activity; first dates that much more so. Two people meet, often for the first time, […]
Everyone wants to be in a good relationship, but sometimes it’s hard to realize that you’ve gotten yourself into a bad one. If your partner is physically assaulting you, it’s clear that you’re in an abusive relationship, but what about other types of bad relationships? An emotionally abusive relationship can be just as damaging as […]
Great news! My new book is out, just in time for Valentines Day: “Back on the Market: The Grown-up Woman’s Guide to Great First Dates… and Beyond” is book 3 in my Short and Sweet Guides to Life series. It’s a short, fun read that will take you through the do’s and don’ts of first […]
I’m really annoyed at the Oscars this year. It’s bad enough that there were no people of colour nominated in the acting or directing categories last year, but two years in a row? That can’t just be an unfortunate coincidence. It’s almost as though the many brilliant actors, writers and directors of colour aren’t even […]
I just read “The End of Small Talk” by Tim Boomer, published in the New York Times on January 14, 2016. I can see where Mr. Boomer was going in his article, but I have to say that as I kept on reading, I started saying, “Oh, no!” to myself. As someone who writes about […]
I just read the January 7, 2016 article in MacLeans Magazine by Cathy Gulli, entitled, “The Collapse of Parenting, and Why it’s Time For Parents to Grow Up.” I was happy to see such an article featured in a national news magazine. Coincidentally, my own Huffington Post article decrying permissiveness in parenting, education and the […]
There’s a viral video going around these days by a father named Tommy Jordan. The video has received over 40 million views and almost 500,000 likes. In it, Mr. Jordan reads a hostile Facebook post by his 15-year-old daughter and then responds to it, culminating with him putting eight shots from his .45 mm handgun into […]
The new year, 2016, has just begun, and you’d think that everyone wants to put their best foot forward, but I’ve been noticing how reluctant people are, these days, when it comes to their personal growth. The opportunity to do this kind of work can be handed to them on a silver platter, and they’ll […]
I was interested to note that Bill Cosby has been charged with sexual assault, stemming from an incident which allegedly occurred in 2004. He’s been accused by over fifty women of drugging and then sexually assaulting them, but in most of these cases, charges couldn’t be laid due to the alleged events being past the […]
Two young women, Miss Columbia and Miss Philippines, recently experienced two different sides of a terrible shock. For Miss Columbia, it was the shock of being crowned the winner of the Miss Universe 2015 pageant and then less than two minutes later, having the crown removed from her head and placed on the head of […]
