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This past year I ran a workshop in two grade eight classes, entitled: Writing The Personal Narrative: A Turning Points Essay. The...

Trish Bentley, editor of The Purple Fig, contributor for The Huffington Post, has a new column, Unapologetic Parent: Informative and...

New Year’s resolution posts are a standard issue right now. Tiz the season to want to become healthier, smarter, more productive and...

Today, there are many books, memes and blog posts dedicated to this idea that wine (or any other alcoholic beverage for that matter) is...

As I scroll through Kayla Itsine’s Instagram feed, I am astonished by the number of women completely transforming their bodies. And I...

For the first time since forever, the sun is shining and warm on our faces. There’s a lull in hostilities and my girls are playing well...

Recently, as we sat around the dinner table and looked back on our day, my three year old son told us about how upset he had been. “What...

One day, after the fourteenth emotional breakdown from one of my two young boys, I found myself preaching the idea of happiness being a...

It’s hard to believe anyone as beautiful, confident and ambitious as Cynthia Loyst, co-host of the popular TV show The Social (alongside...

There is something that comes along with becoming a mother that is much less obvious than the lack of sleep, post-baby muffin top, and...

If you are a parent, you know the complete powerlessness within parenthood that exists between peeing on a stick and the day you die....

Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a...

I caught a little bit of The Bachelorette last night and before long I had to turn it off. I actually had the option to turn it off...

My grandma set the bar for me on how the elderly should roll. I’m only realizing now that she was truly one of a kind. I thought that all...

Last year, approximately $24 billion was spent on home renovations in North America. Women are accounting for a majority of those home...

If you’ve ever picked up a rotisserie chicken from Costco or your local grocery store, you know how good they can be and how incredibly...

Have you ever looked at a dog sleeping, or just strolling along the street without a care in the world, and wanted to switch spots for a...

Kale is my boyfriend. It’s like that muscle-head guy in a tank top who isn’t my type at all because he works out too much and doesn’t...

To a New Year and Newer Literary Adventures Being an avid reader, whose ever-growing appetite for literature doesn’t seem to be waning...

Suddenly this year every time a commercial for anything toy-related comes on, I hear: “I want that. I want that from Santa!” My son is...