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Is there a woman on your gift list who already has plenty of sweaters but can't resist a book to sink into? How about a personally inscribed copy of my memoir My Mother's Daughter? I'm offering a very special price from now until Christmas. [more]

Bring a group of women together---any age, any background, any outlook on the world---and chances are they'll start telling stories, even if no two of them have ever met before. It happens in the hot tub at my favourite spa and it will happen in Memoir That Tells Your Truth, the intimate one-day workshop I'm launching this fall at Verity Women's Club in Toronto. The first session, scheduled for September 18, filled up within days of its announcement last month. Not to worry: I've just added four more. [more]

Have you lived a story you're longing to write? Do you wonder what it takes to strike a universal chord with your own hard-won experience? Join me on Saturday, September 18, at Verity Women's Club for an intimate, hands-on story fest in which we'll work together as a group to refine your own writing. [more]

My husband, bless his heart, thinks I'd look pretty good in a bikini. I haven't worn one of those since my pre-stretch mark days, and even then I dared expose just the merest ribbon of tummy. Should I go for the gusto while I can still do a full set of ab-busting hundreds in Pilates class? Let me mull that over for a bit. I may have reached the farther shores of middle age, but in some respects that's just as well. After half a century of meeting other people's expectations, I've earned the right to focus on what pleases me---and prepares me for an active, vital future. [more]

You might think I'd be a full-fledged adult at the advanced age of---can it be?---60, but I haven't quite lost the goofiness of girlhood. I still reach for the wrong fork at the occasional candlelit table, still replay awkward conversations and realize too late what I should have said. But there's definitely something unfamiliar about this point in my life. Sixty is the boundary between thinking I have forever to do my growing up and accepting the fact that I don't. [more]

It's almost that time of year when every woman's thoughts turn toward the woman who formed her--her mother. I have just the book for the occasion--my memoir, My Mother's Daughter, which Alice Munro has called "wonderfully honest and enthralling." Now you can buy your personally inscribed hard cover copy directly from me at the special price of $20. [more]

My friend Kerry Clare, an avid reader and writer whose book blog Pickle Me This is one of my favourite online destinations, has just unveiled her own spin on CBC's annual Canada Reads awards. I'm on the panel of champions who have the happy responsibility of urging the rest of you to read a magnificent book that deserves to be better known. [more]