To my birth mother: ‘I’m not searching for who I want to be anymore—I’m discovering who I am’
‘Thank you for your love and bravery,’ Charmaine Traynor-Ruitenberg writes to the woman who gave her up for adoption
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An ode to my work-from-home dining table
Pandemic life happened here: work calls by day, home-cooked meals by night, a baby’s first delightful laugh. And now it’s hard to imagine having to leave.
To my dad, an art restorer: ’You have operated a one-man hospital mending shattered souls’
Julius Morry, writes his son Jeffrey, taught him that the only meaning of possessions is the one we ascribe to them
A letter to my first mother: You did not raise me but I consider you my mother still
‘I now realize I was never unwanted, but rather imperfectly loved by imperfect people,’ writes Brittany Penner to her birth mother
’I think that my father murdered my mother.’
Jeff Blackstock unravels the story of his mother’s death in the 1950s and lays it in the hands of his father, who at the time was a Canadian diplomat
Andrew Scheer’s parents were frugal, but he grew up solidly middle-class
The Tory leader sets his stories of childhood without much money against Trudeau’s ’vast fortune.’ But the two might have quite a lot in common.
The Markles aren’t a mess, they’re a mirror
Scott Gilmore: Any family put on the royal pedestal would be found wanting. The truth is, the Markles are actually very average—they are us.
Who does more housework? Here’s the dirt on who does what
As the man of the house I want to do more—I really do. So why haven’t I? Here is what’s really needed to fix the family imbalance
’How To Save Your Daughter’s Life’: lock her up
A criminal profiler advises keeping a tight rein on girls
Women’s educations impact families
But perhaps not the way you’d expect