Just over a year ago, I moved 4,000 kilometers away from my home city of Vancouver to Toronto. I found myself alone in a new place I had never visited before with absolutely no friends or job in the middle of winter. While this was one of the most challenging and terrifying periods of my life, it

Our love affair with screens started a long time ago. While we loved our televisions from the beginning, we really loved them when we saw them in the windows of stores, on sale, by the hundreds. All of those glistening, colorful, shiny screens, all shapes and sizes. Oh, how they would capture our

My mom just sent me a friend request on Facebook, and I'm worried — not for her to see all the stuff I post on Facebook, because posting controls are your friend, and I don't really have anything to hide from my mom anyways, but because of this:I know she'll probably friend the members of my family

I do not understand the youth of today. When I was a not-very-cool teen, I was concerned with a lot of things. I was concerned that I would never convince a boy to make out with me. I was concerned that I would never get my acne under control. I was concerned that I would never be able to pull off

People always told me I was lucky for having the same best friend I’d had since I was 8. I was even luckier that we were both writers and work-from-home moms who supported each other.When a fat-shaming Facebook drama nearly ended our friendship of 22 years, I got thinking about misogynist humor and