Health

For Shari Graydon, it was a newspaper column that got her fired up enough to write a book. “A columnist I read regularly had devoted her entire column one day to cataloguing the litany of the wrinkle-prone areas on a woman’s body and included areas of a woman’s body that had never occurred to me to be concerned about,” says Graydon, the Ottawa-based women’s advocate and author of I Feel Great About My Hands…And Other Unexpected Joys of Aging.

No matter what is going on in your world, there is always someone who is a little better off than you and someone who is a little worse.

According to Katy Read, being a stay-at-home mother isn't all roses. Here, she describes the highs and lows and offers some advice for any women considering a similar choice.

I hit 5K! I hit 5K! I love goal-setting, and in my training plan to do a 10K in May and a half-marathon in September, I hit my first milestone distance last week: running five kilometres (while being pelted with wet snow and rain, no less).

Recently, a very good friend practically begged me to go to Istanbul with him. Everything seemed to line up: the timing was great and he was generously offering to cover the cost of my accommodations.