Like most women my age, I have al­ways har­boured fan­tasies about a uni­formed man com­ing into my place of work, lit­er­ally sweep­ing me off my feet and car­ry­ing me off into the sunset. In An Officer and a Gentleman, Richard Gere dons a white naval uni­form and does ex­actly that to Debra Winger. We all re­mem­ber it — it’s stored in our men­tal fil­ing cabinet, […]

Monday, April 19:
I know what has hap­pened to your sex­ual life. This cruel dis­as­ter is called im­po­tence.
Um, I think the Chinese, Haitians and Chileans would dis­agree with what you con­sider a ‘dis­as­ter’.
Bonus email!
Sexual im­po­tence in men is one of the most poorly ex­plored med­ical im­pair­ments.
Yes, there are only three med­ica­tions for this on the mar­ket. Why stop there? […]

Life some­times throws you curve balls, but lately I feel like I’m a bat­ter in a base­ball game from hell. Work and vol­un­teer com­mit­ments, not to men­tion lousy February and Smarch weather, have made me feel ex­hausted, lethar­gic and crummy all over.
Let’s face it — we all go through ruts. Well, this one is hap­pily com­ing to an end. Spring is […]

I have a con­fes­sion to make: I am a for­mer Catholic school­girl.
I’ve since been saved from the church and have been blas­phem­ing ever since. When I heard the news that The Vatican gave Avatar a poor re­view and crit­i­cized the film for “flirt­ing with mod­ern doc­trines that pro­mote the wor­ship of na­ture as a sub­sti­tute for re­li­gion,” my im­me­di­ate thought was, “Wow, someone’s […]

Last month, I wrote a press re­lease for a fundraiser a friend of mine is or­ga­niz­ing, which will take place on January 19. As the date of the event nears, we’ve been try­ing to get the word out through me­dia pitches, so­cial net­work­ing sites and word-of-mouth mar­ket­ing. Any ex­po­sure or me­dia at­ten­tion is more than wel­come.
Today, a free­lance jour­nal­ist based […]