At the grave of my childless spinster great x3 aunt last fall. "But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably di...

Melanie Notkin , founder of Savvy Auntie , has a marketer's knack for identifying and catering to a neglected market segment -- in thi...

This week's issue of Macleans , Canada's national newsmagazine, features a story called " The no-baby boom " by Anne Kings...

I was introduced to " Middlemarch " by George Eliot nearly 35 years ago, by my favourite English prof. I had never heard of it bef...

The other night, I watched an interview that George Stromboulopoulos -- the CBC television star we memorably encountered at LaGuardia last...

(I have a thing for alliteration, lol.) (I guess it's not QUITE mid-March... but almost...) March started off somewhat sadly. Within ...

I recently stumbled upon  this article , a first-person account from the Hamilton Spectator published in January.  It's actually an abri...