Ok, I'm gray, so perhaps nobody will see this, but I hope a few people do, because it's a true story and just about the scariest thing that has ever happened to me.

I absolutely love Audrey Tautou's entire look in Amelie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain). The cute tailored tops, the big clunky shoes, the haircut. Her apartment is pretty fab too....

I have a pretty good story: not about me, but Ima conceal identifying details to protect the innocent. When I was in college, I hung out with a gang of hard-drinking folks, mostly guys, and we'd get up to all manners of shenanigans on any given weekend. One guy in this group was a big, blustery dude with a huge…

1. Make piece with your weight, make piece with food, and block out everything your mother says about those topics;

I teach high school in a region where many of my students are refugees and newcomers to Canada. We have a lot of Haitian students, and for reasons you can imagine those kids often come to us with several years of missed education and gaps in their learning. One of my Grade 11 Haitian students was a keen learner, but…

Ok, no question the 70s were a terrible time not to be clothed, but there is one silhouette/look that sticks in my mind as having been universally hideous and yet impossible to kill for the longest time: that long-boot-leg-jeans worn with super-pointy high-heeled-shoes combo that everybody was trying to act was cool…

I had a pretty scary online harassment experience that translated into real-life threats and weirdness. Years ago, I got a FB friend request from a woman I had known in college. I remembered her as high-strung, but sweet, from a very sheltered background. I was glad to reconnect with her, wondering how she was…