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It's the Friday round up of my Milk N Heels columns for this past week!
Hello Friends! I’m proud to say that I’ve ended the week with hitting almost thirty thousand words, and eighty one pages. For those of you who know how non-fiction works, you know that this is about half way done. Non-fiction...
This is my speech I gave at the Butterfly Ball for Boost, I'd like to share it with those of you who weren't there.
This week will more than likely be a week of blogs that I feel are some of my “personal best” if I may be so bold to type that. I’ll be posting like this on the days that I writing...
Just because somebody looks like they don't have a story, doesn't mean they don't.
My heart is incredibly heavy today. The title of my blog today is a line from the speech I gave at Boost for Kids when I shared about my sexual abuse as a child. “Just because somebody looks like they...
I was hoping it was propaganda, this Ontario dog/cat research racket. I'm sad to report it's not, it's true.
Well, I’m deeply disturbed, and sad that I’m writing this blog. I was hoping that what I would uncover about animal testing here in Ontario was just PETA/Vegan propaganda. Unfortunately this is not at all the case. Here in Ontario...
You find out they're animal testing in your own backyard, WWYDW???
We all live our lives in ways that fit our souls, our desires, our comfort level and in a way that matter and makes sense to us. Some people are vegan for ethical reasons, some for medical. Others, like myself,...
Is it naively romantic to want a world where everybody treats one another the way they want to be treated?
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this here on my blog, or if it’s only been on my social media that I’ve talked about this incredible book I’ve been working with since early March. It’s this phenomenal manifestation book titled:...
A little Dear Elle, and my fave motivational Monday post to wrap up the weekend!
I’m always fascinated with how quickly time moves. I wake up at 5, 5:30 thinking; “wow I have all these extra hours to get shit done”, and then before I know it is lunch time and I’ve barely crossed anything...
Lately I spend more time in long lines surfing my phone, and less time huffing and puffing.
As far as WWYDW I’ve literally made all those choices before while being in a store. Back in the day when I was super busy, running around with the girls, I used to add a quick pop into a store...
Should we have to be friends with our kids friend's parents? And how much makeup is too much when your kid is 15?
I’m truly enjoying contributing to the online magazine MilkNHeels. I hope that you’re hanging out on their site, reading, sharing and engaging in not only my posts, but their fashion posts as well. I’d love your feedback on this week’s...
Life is full of ups and downs, but always beautiful. Things I want Mikaela to know post graduation.
For those of you who have been reading my blog, or have been a fan of YB for a good long while you’ve heard us both share about the hard times. The dry financial times where our girls ate peanut...
Who knew if you put in the work, and were quick to say sorry, a marriage could go twenty eight years?
The funny thing about relationships is that often while we’re in the thick of them we can’t really recall the good, or the bad times. It seems, to me, that the days melt one into the other. I’m not saying...
When is our government going to support people with mental health issues?
What makes us tick? I’ve always been fascinated by the human mind, genetic coding and what is essentially luck of the gene draw. Like what makes a person/people go online to learn how to make a homemade bomb then go...
Do you think legalizing weed to pharmacy sales only is the happy middle ground we need?
Here is my response to yesterday’s WWYDW. Personally I feel that both alcohol and drugs are easily abused by those who are trying to abuse them. I was brought up in a home with a coming and going alcoholic father,...
I'm on the fence; are you for or against the legalization of marijuana?
Okay OmaSteak, I’m putting you on blast for this comment: “Mrs. Bisson, Has Canada banned the private ownership of firearms and confiscated all firearms currently held by the public? Seems like you should be a little more concerned in bringing...
In the Santa Fe school shooting, what do you think the first line of defense should have been?
“I was thinking it was going to happen eventually, it’s been happening everywhere,” Paige Curry, a Santa Fe High School student told a local Houston station. “I was ready to run out, but my teacher told me to hide instead,...
Do we think Meghan will change the monarchy, or will they change her???
All weekend long my thoughts have been preoccupied by the two biggest news stories: Harry, Diana’s youngest son, the one who walks most closely in his mother’s philanthropic footsteps, wed his love on Saturday, as we all know. And the...
Are you paying attention to the royal wedding today? I wasn't going to, but then another school shooting happened.
I’m not sure where you stand on all the hub-bub of the royal wedding. I truly couldn’t have cared any less about the entire thing. Who cares that a divorced American actress was set to marry a prince who is...
Do you think a 16 year old can decide his own future, and should a 6 year old be allowed to wear princess costumes to school?
Hello my Lovelies, as is the Friday norm, here are this week’s Dear Elle columns for you to read, comment, share and enjoy! Hope you had a good one today, I truly did!! Dear Elle, My six year old daughter...
Are birthdays a big deal for you? What would you do if you fell in love with somebody who thought nothing of them???
Is anybody else like me when it comes to birthdays??? I’m the sort of person that has a countdown for my own. I have every single person who I love, cherish, and honor on a paper calendar. I have alarms...
Does anybody else buy stuff at the market because you might need it, or it's on sale?
I learned a great lesson today while going through my kitchen cabinets, looking for extra pots and pans, and miscellaneous kitchen stuff to take to our cottage…I over buy. I over buy ingredients for recipes that I’m making. Or planning...
To all the mothers we know, we love, we have, and we've lost. Happy Mother's Day.
Awww, being a mom. From the second we are told we’re going to be one, we’re curious about what’s to come. Each new day is a new mystery. From the moment we become mothers we are looking for support, for...