Welcome to my online community. Instead of wine or coffee, I’m serving stories—the kind women tell among friends.
They’re drawn from my life and other lives that have inspired me. I’m lucky enough to have spent my career exchanging stories with women. At Chatelaine, where I spent a decade as Editor, I shared my defining moments in a monthly column. Thousands of readers identified. They taught me how much we have in common—and how much we have to learn from one another.
The conversation continues right here. You'll learn about my new memoir, My Mother's Daughter, which Chatelaine readers encouraged me to write. You can read and comment on some of my most popular articles. You can post a story in honour of your own mother-or your daughter. And you can follow my blog, Letters from Rona. Now over to you.
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Rona Maynard is an author, speaker and former Editor of Chatelaine. Everything she knows about the real lives of women, she learned from women like you.
From the book:
I said to my father, "You don't live here anymore. This is my mother's house, not yours. It's time for you to go." My father cursed me. He shook his fist. Then he left and never came back.

Love, death and a blueberry patch
In Henniker, N. H. (population less than 5,000), you can't order sushi, watch Toy Story 3 or buy gladiator sandals with platform heels. But this time of the year, if you know where to look, you can pick enough unsprayed, explosively flavourful blueberries to fill any number of pies, and you won't pay a cent for the privilege. Whoever owns the berry patch can no longer be bothered to charge the pickers who tramp through a tangle of weeds to claim a share of the bounty. [more]
July 22, 2010
Special early-bird offer! New sessions of my memoir workshop
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June 25, 2010
Memoir that tells your truth: a workshop with Rona Maynard
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May 4, 2010
Making peace with my aging body: my latest story for Best Health
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This is your space for celebrating your mother—or your daughter. If not for her, you’d be a different person. Share a story, post a photo and find out what other women have to say about the women who shaped their lives.
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Rosemary Murphy
Six Words - How My Mother Taught Me One Last Lesson...
There is nothing earth-shattering about the death of an 87-year-old woman...unless that woman is your mother. Suddenly this woman who had been there...
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Darinka Protich
Yesteray, July 19th, was my mother's birthday. She would have been 88 years old. She died in 1982 and was buried on my 32nd birthday. The day before her funeral...
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My Mom
My Mother's Earrings
Decided to wear my mother’s earrings while visiting the city we lived in when I was a child. I haven’t been there in such a long time, wearing her earrings somehow...
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Ann Ehmann--hands down, the best. She was my sophomore English teacher in 1969. She opened my eyes and ears to the wonders of poetry and literature. Somehow, without saying it directly, she taught us that there is a story, a song, in every piece of writing, and her passion was infectious. Mrs. Ehmann was not dumpy... [more]
Written by Donna Champion, June 18, 2010
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