Welcome to my online community. Instead of wine or coffee, I’m serving stories—the kind women tell among friends.
They’re drawn from my life and other lives that have inspired me. I’m lucky enough to have spent my career exchanging stories with women. At Chatelaine, where I spent a decade as Editor, I shared my defining moments in a monthly column. Thousands of readers identified. They taught me how much we have in common—and how much we have to learn from one another.
The conversation continues right here. You’ll learn about my new memoir, My Mother’s Daughter, which Chatelaine readers encouraged me to write. You can read and comment on some of my most popular editorials and articles. You can post a photo and story in honour of your own mother—or your daughter. And there’s a new column, Letters from Rona. Now over to you.
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Rona Maynard is an author, speaker and former Editor of Chatelaine. Everything she knows about the real lives of women, she learned from women like you.
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I said to my father, "You don't live here anymore. This is my mother's house, not yours. It's time for you to go." My father cursed me. He shook his fist. Then he left and never came back.

A few delicious bites from the buffet of travel
I´m writing to you from our hotel in Buenos Aires, which overlooks the mausoleum-lined avenues of the cemetery where the mummified body of Evita Peron lies buried deep underground for safekeeping (her remains have been stolen more than once). The sky is its usual brilliant blue, the roller-bladers and dog walkers are heading to the park, and the Sunday craft market teems with chachkas made of leather, lace or beads and sold for a pittance. (Although I wouldn´t dream of buying any of this stuff, I´m impressed to see that none of it comes from China.) Street chefs are firing up their grills, and at certain corners you can practically taste the pungent local sausage (the animals are grass-fed here, and what a delicious difference that makes). I´d be out walking the broad leafy avenues, but I´ve walked too much already in my eagerness to take in a new place, to record the distinctive sights and aromas in my memory. [more]
March 25, 2008
Age and beauty: Rona's latest article in More magazine
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February 1, 2008
Ottawa Art Gallery features Max Maynard in a new show of landscape painting
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January 28, 2008
Hiring your husband: Rona talks with trail-blazing women who've done it
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This is your space for celebrating your mother—or your daughter. If not for her, you’d be a different person. Share a story, post a photo and find out what other women have to say about the women who shaped their lives.
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Rosemary Maynard Woolery
The one thing that brings my mother to the forefront of my brain is her lovely, soft skin. To this day when I need my mother, I find a piece of velvet and...
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Betty Postill
There are many stories about the courage my mother conjured up whenever it was demanded. Two I remember every time there's a big storm. Wherever I happen to be, I rush to the...
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Amelia
Growing up, I always thought my mother Amelia was "different".
Throughout my life, my mother always seemed moody, in and out of depression with a bit of a predisposition to narcissism,...
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Oh how I can relate to your love of the perfect hat. After having spent a decade with long, spiral curly hair, dyed to hide the grey , I went short then shorter then pixie with no hair dye. I was searching for protection for my face for my noon hour strolls and... [more]
Written by Karen Reckzin, April 10, 2008

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