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I once saw an ad for a designer handbag that, aside from all its other irresistibly of-the-moment features, was "big enough for everything except your issues with your mother." We modern women still have enough of those to fill an old-fashioned steamer trunk. Writer Sarah Treleaven unpacks the maternal trunk with me in an interview for her "How to Be Happy" series. [more]

Let's say you're a woman with a thriving business---or an entrepreneurial dream you're determind to pursue. You're also the mother of a daughter with skills to share and a career to build. Can you bring her on board and still like each other in the end? More, Canada's magazine for women over 40, asked me to find out. [more]

Let's hear it for paperbacks! They're small enough to slip into your purse and light enough not to stress your shoulder. You can read them on planes, on elliptical machines and while trying to stay balanced on a lurching subway car at rush hour. Plus, they're affordably priced for book clubs and gift lists. So if you've been waiting for the paperback edition of My Mother's Daughter, here's some good news: today is the day. [more]

When my best friend died of cancer this past winter, I was so unstrung by grief that one day I phoned her old number at the office, longing for the sound of her voice. Had I lost my mind? It seemed that way because I'd lost my personal historian, who cared enough to remember small details of my life that even I had forgotten long ago. And yet because she wasn't family, my bereavement went unnoticed by the rest of the world. "Losing Val," in the September issue of More, is my account of this life-changing, never-ending passage that every woman must face, sooner or later. [more]

It happens to even the best matched couple. You look at your beloved and loving spouse in his underwear and think to yourself, "He's a terrific guy but it's been a long time since I had the hots for him." I went looking for advice that makes sense (endorsed by experts but tested by real-life skeptics like you and me). You can read what I learned in the September issue of Best Health. The secret: dating your spouse. [more]

Rona Maynard once viewed online friendships as a threat to the time-honoured graces of real-world friendship (the dinner date, the hand-written note, the phone call just to say hello). That was before she learned to use the Internet to deepen old ties and make new ones possible. Read more in the summer 2008 issue of Best Health, the new magazine from Reader's Digest. [more]

In "If looks could thrill," 50-something Rona Maynard finds a new beauty role model: a confident, stylish, unBotoxed woman who just happens to be over 60. [more]

An early Max Maynard landscape of the Cowichan Valley will appear in the Ottawa Art Gallery's new exhibiton "Deep Roots," on view February 2 to May 4. Rona Maynard's father is in distinguished company: other featured landscape artists include Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Edwin Holgate and A.Y. Jackson. [more]

In old-school family businesses, Pop ran the show while Mom tended the files. Now a new breed of husband is proud to work for his wife. And she wouldn't have it any other way. Sound too good to be true? Read Rona Maynard's eye-opening article "Working for the Wife" in the February/March issue of MORE, Canada's magazine celebrating women over 40. [more]