A few weeks ago I signed up for a class called 40 Days to Personal Revolution at Power Yoga Canada. The course involved yoga, meditation, prescribed readings, a fruit cleanse and weekly meetings that were more like healing circles than any meeting I’d ever been to. At the beginning of the first … [Read more...]
Share Your Shame!
I was driving to work today and heard this piece on CBC about Dear Diary, essentially the Toronto Mortified Nation. Basically, it's a stage show where everyday people get up on stage and read from their high school diaries. I think I want to do it. In grade thirteen, I religiously wrote in a … [Read more...]
Aging Gracefully?
This month I turn 45 years old. It's an interesting number for me. I feel, given the longevity of most women in my family (besides my mom), like it's the half way mark. It also came to me this weekend that in my 45th year, I will have had my step-mother in my life for half the time that I had my … [Read more...]
The Journey to Death
How can I know about dying and how I want to live my journey if I don't open myself up fully to the experience? As I watched my sister-in-law this past summer and now my good friend go through the deaths of their mothers, as I hold their hands, share my wisdom and cry tears of loss and gut … [Read more...]
Facing My Fear at 50, Again
All week I watched the parasail float over the water above me as I ran or walked the beach. I could do that, I say to myself, from the safety of the peaceful beach. But do I want to? "Nance, you should do that. I know you are afraid." I am, as many of you know, very afraid of heights. I have … [Read more...]
Giving Random Thanks at Thanksgiving
So my Thanksgiving miserable mood is continuing. It did NOT help watching the Cory Monteith tribute episode of Glee last night. My eyes are almost swollen shut today and I don't even watch the freaking show! I also saw Gravity in 3D IMAX right before so lets couple the tears with nausea at having … [Read more...]
The Ups and Downs of October
Oh October. You baffle me. The leaves are turning, the air is crisper, the hats and sweaters come back. All my favourite things. I can have a fire in my fireplace one day and be back in my flip flops the next. I get to reconnect with all my friends that I play platform tennis with. We get a long … [Read more...]
The Men In My Life
Last week there were men everywhere. In and out of my house like some kind of Big Girl Wonderland. Only major difference is they all had tools. And I was not attracted to any of them. It all started with me going into my daughter's room last May and saying Why does it smell like a wet puppy in … [Read more...]
Life’s Best Accessory
The best accessory in life is not shoes, a fabulous haircut, that perfect Coach bag or $250 jeans. The very best accessory in life is happiness. You want to draw people to you? Be happy. Be you. When we work on this, everything else follows. Being my children's mom taught me this. It was … [Read more...]
The Emotions Of Breasts
I have been thinking about that first bra shop this morning as my thoughts are with my best friend from my first bra days when breasts were new to me. She is about to lose one of hers to cancer. As much as daughters are like their moms, mine were horrified too by the first bra shop. I was not … [Read more...]