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I believe we who celebrate Channukah got to kick-off the winter holiday season this year. As I write, Channukah is in it’s last few hours. There’s been much good food, lots of family, some presents and many, many candles (we let each child light their own special Channukiah, so at my house, [...]

3 weeks. Not long, and yet so long. The afternoon of April 23, 2018 will be remembered by Torontonians in that dreaded, ‘where were you when you first heard?’, way. A day when our city lost some of it’s innocence, when we showed the world the kind of people (kind people) we are, and a […]

I love the years when holiday celebrations synch up – like this year, when my family was gathering for Passover Seder meals on the same weekend as friends and colleagues were enjoying their Easter rituals. I love the parallel preparations and anticipation, the extra level of hubbub in the [...]

If January is a ‘clean-slate’ time of year – when we get to make promises (especially to ourselves) about starting over, re-creating and imagining anew, then March, feels like the time to ‘Spring’ into committed action. I wonder…who first thought of calling this time of year Spring? Were they [...]

Ask anyone what a February blog should focus on and there’s one clear, obvious, unavoidable answer… Groundhog Day! Just kidding… With all due respect to the poor rodents whose peaceful hibernation we annually interrupt to prognosticate the demise of another dreary winter, February belongs to [...]

2018 is starting in a way that no other year to date has for me… planned. I mean, it’s not like I’ve never done ANY planning… When I was younger I made resolutions: ‘I’m going to exercise every single day!’ (yah, this girl’s an intermittent gym user at heart, and that combined with lifestyle [...]

Today’s post is a bit off my usual course (I can hear you now, “Course? Is she ever ON course?). It is an insider’s peak at a recent conversation with my teenage son. One of those rare times when innocent dialogue quickly spun itself into an opportunity to invite him to look through my [...]

Summer’s doing all she can to stick around (and believe me I appreciate every one of her efforts), but as the days shorten and the sweaters come out there’s a different feeling in the air. An acknowledgement that the carefree, pack-in-the-fun season is winding down and ‘school’s back in [...]

A strange confluence of activities occurred in my life this past weekend. I was reading The Gratitude Diaries, by Janice Kaplan (it’s by the way – check it out if you haven’t yet!), at the same time as watching Hurricane Irma wreak havoc on Caribbean islands and Southern US states that hold not [...]