Our literary icon has clay feet! Where to point the finge of blame when sexual assault within the family becomes a secret that must be kept?

The Movie Man mirrors our concern about who will carry on our life work and care for what we love when we are gone -- and will they forgive us for leaving heaps of stuff?

Protest encampments on campus are becoming as common as daffodils in spring, but what do they signify? Does the student unrest of the 1960s have anything to teach us?

Alice Munroe wrote about proper ladies who didn't behave properly: why might that be?

Patriarchy, the rule of the father, makes mothering difficult and fathering impossible. Except in oases of matriarchy.

Four movies that together give the full monte on mothering. C'mon, Cmon, give it a try.

Insecurity is an existential element of life; community is the cure.

The fourth role -- competing in the economic world -- that women are expected to play may sink the boat.

This factoid world makes decisions increasingly difficult; take a time out to become friends with ambiguity and uncertainty.

I propose a 3-step process for doing emotional laundry to keep mental unease at bay.

Given modern practice I should give a trigger warning that this column is about suicide.

Conservative governments are stampeding to intervene in family dynamics far beyond their ken, imperilling kids.

The spectre of mortality tends to being generations together and make space for sharing memories.

The brevity of modern media cannot compete with the potentially steamy missives of yesteryear: An homage to letters.

A call to retire the construct of retirement and reimagine the contributions of 'dependents'.

A reading of my work is featured on our local community radio station.

In many languages, debt and sin are the same word. Which makes Canadians big sinners...

Paring and sharing to change direction.

A send-up of the pseudo-science of economics as it swats at inflation.