The Bag Lady's Blog

One of my favourite TV shows growing up was The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Chuckles Bites the Dust was one of my favourite episodes. Chuckles the Clown, the kid show host on WJM (the TV station where Mary worked) was asked to be the grand marshal for a...

A LESSON IN POWER DRESSING With the passing of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, there’s been much to reflect upon, from how she lived her life in public to how she wielded her power. Watching all the pomp and pageantry this past week, there was one remark...

DREAMS HAVE NO EXPIRY DATE Arianna Huffington, of Huffington Post fame, on her 71st birthday, expressed exactly how I was feeling having turned 65 earlier this summer. “It’s a curiosity of aging that as we get older, we have more to look back on, but...

"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” ― Mark Twain How many times have you made yourself sick with worry about things “that might happen?” It’s something I have wrestled with most of my adult life. For...

I was high-fiving the TV as Maye Musk, until now best known for being the mother of billionaire Elon Musk, announced her history-making news as the oldest woman to be a cover model for the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated. As someone who has been...

“..But sometimes you have to step up.” These are the words of Sherry Turkle, from her recent memoir, The Empathy Diaries. Ms. Turkle is a woman with a remarkable and inspiring career, a clinical psychologist, and a thinker about the ethics of technology...

This past Wednesday was Bell’s Let’s Talk Day, one of the largest corporate commitments to mental health in Canada. Eleven years ago Bell started this campaign, where they’d donate 5 cents to mental health organizations every time someone texts, tweets...

It was a tough end to November for all of us “Broadway Babies.”(A nod to Follies’ fans!). On November 25, American lyricist and composer, Stephen Sondheim, known for the remarkable range of musicals he wrote and composed from West Side Story to Sweeney...

I was looking forward to curling up this past weekend with two recently published books from two powerhouse women: “Nothing But The Truth – A Memoir”, by one of Canada’s top criminal lawyers, Marie Henein, and “My Life in Full, Work, Family and our Future”...