We Weren't Told

I missed an episode last week because I was deep in the administration of my father's estate — and then I went to Wisconsin, to the writing workshop I'd impulsively booked, and let a wave of grief knock me over on an...

A family member told me to remember "positive memories only" about my late father, and it made me so angry I couldn't speak -- until I did. One reel and forty-four messages later from strangers in their own grief, I've...

CJ and I just celebrated sixteen years of marriage with less than twenty hours away in the Blue Mountains. Nope, not afull weekend, and nope, not a fancy resort -- just a quiet, small Airbnb room in the mountains. As a...

I hosted Girls Night In: Hobbies Edition last Saturday — pyjamas, wings, a colouring book from the pharmacy — because a particular type of silence has opened up in my life in the past few months, which made me realize I...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I just closed my eyes and put a very large writing workshop bill on my credit card — flights, a ferry, the whole thing — and felt the...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. A fifteen-second video landed in my high school group chat this week. It was a video of our alma mater's newest graduating class -- cap...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I decided a long time ago that I wasn't a football person. No maps, no cardinal directions, no football — these were just facts about me...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I was recently in a room full of women my age — millennials and Gen X — gathered to learn from a woman who is genuinely excellent at what...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Fair warning — this is my voice after four days of flu and zero voice, and it's either this or I don't show up. And we are not doing that...

We Weren't Told | Episode 13: Your Body Is Keeping Score Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I've been in the thick of something heavy with some family members — and then I...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I went to a moms' networking event a few weeks ago and as part of an icebreaker, a woman pulled a pair of tiny socks out of her handbag...

<p>Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.</p><p><br></p><p>Threads was on fire this morning. Jay-Z showed up at The Roots Picnic — combed-out locks, dressed in the black Tims...

<p>Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.</p><p><br></p><p>I'll be honest — this episode almost didn't happen. I've been in a two-day existential funk, the real "is this it?"...

<p>Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.</p><p>I had coffee recently with a woman I've known since I was four years old — same prep school, same high school, now both mothers...

<p>Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.</p><p>I was at my favourite café last week — the one I go to alone, to write — when something ordinary happened — a cashier was filming...