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	<title>Rona Maynard</title>
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	<description>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.
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    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:49:34 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Ace, righteous and hip to the tip</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Hamilton bus terminal, where I killed time yesterday while waiting for a friend to sweep me away to the Bob Dylan concert, is not my idea of a woman-friendly hangout. But I&#039;d brought a good book to distract me and create a Dylanish mood: Straight from the Fridge, Dad: a Dictionary of Hipster Slang.]]></description>
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<title>Feisty old dames</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:32:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Okay, I accept it. I&#039;m going to grow old. Either that or die too soon, a prospect so flat-out unacceptable that I&#039;m practically ready to shout, &quot;Bring on the signs of cronehood! The memory lapses, the wattles, the chin hairs and saggy bits! And while you&#039;re at it, bring me a mighty cane that I can bang with authority and vigour when young pups displease me.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>When a friend dies: Rona Maynard writes for More about the invisible passage</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:48:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When my best friend died of cancer this past winter, I was so unstrung by grief that one day I phoned her old number at the office, longing for the sound of her voice. Had I lost my mind? It seemed that way because I&#039;d lost my personal historian, who cared enough to remember small details of my life that even I had forgotten long ago. And yet because she wasn&#039;t family, my bereavement went unnoticed by the rest of the world. &quot;Losing Val,&quot; in the September issue of More, is my account of this life-changing, never-ending passage that every woman must face, sooner or later.]]></description>
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<title>A year in the life of ronamaynard.com</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;m breaking out the virtual champagne today. It&#039;s been exactly one year since I launched ronamaynard.com, and connecting with you online has been even more rewarding than I could have guessed. In case you&#039;re new to this community, I&#039;ve rounded up a few of my favourite posts. If you&#039;re an old friend, I&#039;d love to know if yours is among them. Either way, thank you for coming. Without the inspiration you&#039;ve provided in your comments and e-mail messages, this wouldn&#039;t be my online home.]]></description>
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<title>Free at last from the insomniac's little helper</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:49:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When it comes to sleep, I have long been a woman of firm convictions: I need eight hours, I can scrape by on six and if I don&#039;t get my share I&#039;ll be an addled, nauseated wraith with an obliterating headache. I was so fixated on sleep that I ended up with a nightly pill habit, which I&#039;ve just beaten while following a strict and unwelcome set of rules that really work.]]></description>
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<title>Spa treatment du jour: sleep therapy</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When I set out to break my sleeping pill habit, I schlepped by subway and bus to your basic red brick medical building. Alongside a mom with a stroller and an elderly gent in a wheelchair, I rode the elevator to the Toronto Sleep Clinic, where the walls are beige and the furniture best described as functional. It didn&#039;t even cross my mind that I could have embarked on this adventure in style, at one of those high-end spas where you&#039;re escorted to your treatment in the softest of robes as New Age music wafts in the fragrant air.]]></description>
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<title>Unloved, unlovely, unwanted by thieves</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ It was one of those unloved, unlovely things you can pass every day without noticing what it is you&#039;ve seen. A man&#039;s bike, sheathed in duct tape and many layers of thick black paint, with a matted plush tiger tail dangling from each handlebar. The mismatched reflectors on its wheels suggested a joyriding kid, but the ungainly proportions of the whole apparatus had an air of desperation, of cast-off parts cobbled together into a Frankenbike.]]></description>
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<title>Rona Maynard writes for Best Health about sustaining passion in marriage</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ It happens to even the best matched couple. You look at your beloved and loving spouse in his underwear and think to yourself, &quot;He&#039;s a terrific guy but it&#039;s been a long time since I had the hots for him.&quot; I went looking for advice that makes sense (endorsed by experts but tested by real-life skeptics like you and me). You can read what I learned in the September issue of Best Health. The secret: dating your spouse.]]></description>
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<title>The John Edwards imbroglio: please hold the sanctimony!</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Ever since John Edwards finally admitted his long-suspected affair, moralists have been denouncing the former presidential candidate as the worst sort of scumbag. Yet the truth is that all married people fail their spouse sooner or later--at times grievously. At least most of us can confront our marital problems behind closed doors. Political couples have to do it while the cameras roll. ]]></description>
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<title>Peach picking: a sentimental journey</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Next Saturday morning, instead of working out with a butt-kicking trainer who is mercifully away on vacation, we&#039;ll be heading down the highway to a place of legend: the southern Ontario fruit farm where my husband briefly lived in his teens. This time of year, he used to stand under a likely-looking peach tree, extend his arm into the branches and let a perfectly sun-ripened peach drop into his waiting palm. Because I haven&#039;t been blessed with this experience, I don&#039;t know the glory of a peach--or so he has always maintained.]]></description>
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<title>A word of comfort in the night from M.F.K. Fisher</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ On doctor&#039;s orders, I now get up and read in the middle of the night when I can&#039;t sleep, although my natural inclination is to thrash grimly in bed. I&#039;ve found that the best books to read in the pre-dawn hours are the ones you can dip in and out of with no need to follow a plot--like the elegant, opinionated essays that comprise M.F.K. Fisher&#039;s Last House, in which I found a wonderful contrarian view of insomnia.]]></description>
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<title>Who knew? Paris Hilton is funny!</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I thought Paris Hilton was a sleek and shiny bimbo with no social graces until I discovered her tart satirical side in her video rebuttal of a John McCain ad. ]]></description>
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<title>He's a stick man, she's a slut</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:09:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The world does not look kindly on a woman who swaggers from bed to bed as men have always done. But to my mind, the real inequality is that a naked woman can&#039;t display her cellulite in post-coital splendour the way a naked man displays his gut.]]></description>
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<title>A writer's greatest reward</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The world positively teems with terrific writing, not only on bookstore shelves but online, where eclectic prose and thought are available free to all comers. For readers this is a wonderful thing. For writers it&#039;s profoundly humbling to know that people who love to read have more than enough options already to occupy their minds and hearts for a great many lifetimes. ]]></description>
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<title>My son, myself</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;d been hoping for a daughter who would play with dolls as I used to do. Instead I had a son with a passion for trucks (the noisier, the better). It was not what I expected, but I&#039;ve learned to like surprises.]]></description>
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<title>Nowhere I have to be, nothing I have to do: bliss!</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ This holiday Monday, I have our loft to myself, with sunlight streaming from end to end of the place and none of the usual Monday sound track (rumbling buses, boisterous pedestrians) from the street outside. A year or even a week from now, I won&#039;t remember the sweet languor of this moment in my life unless I capture it now. ]]></description>
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<title>There's no such thing as a boring life</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Women learn early to bite their tongues and let other people have the floor. We&#039;re so well trained in solicitude that we often need permission to speak. That&#039;s what my friend Elaine provides every summer at a raucous dinner party in our garden. She always asks us, one by one, to tell the group how our lives have changed since last year. The resulting stories prove that there&#039;s no such thing as a life without drama.]]></description>
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<title>The last sentence: 10 of the best</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:43:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When I first learned to read, I liked to flip ahead to the very last line to savour the secret of the ending. I knew this was not the approved way to read, which made it all the more seductive. I was supposed to be patient and let the author surprise me, but my notion of a surprise had nothing to do with what happened at the end, or did not. It was all about the story&#039;s destiny. A good closing sentence is the pinnacle toward which the story has been climbing.]]></description>
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<title>Want to be my bridesmaid? Lose those wrinkles first!</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:12:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Weddings were created to celebrate married love. In the age of Botox and liposuction, they&#039;re becoming celebrations of physical perfection. No wrinkles, yellowed teeth or flat chests allowed.]]></description>
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<title>If looks could thrill</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ My new beauty role model is well into her 60s, and neither lifted nor Botoxed. She has given up stilettos, sheath dresses, eyeliner and a husband. When I&#039;m having a bad face day, she reminds me what beauty really is: the artless confidence that comes with letting go of whatever constricts a woman&#039;s best self.]]></description>
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<title>What she did for sex: a loose girl tells the truth</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;ve read enough hand-wringing news reports about pre-teen girls giving blow jobs and dressing like hookers. The usual suspects (academics and therapists) keep telling me the same old story. I wanted to hear from a real expert: a young woman who has lived it and has the guts to tell the truth. Now along comes Kerry Cohen, author of the brave and eye-opening Loose Girl: a Memoir of Promiscuity.]]></description>
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<title>My new rented office: a progress report</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:53:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The beauty of working at home, according to the popular notion, has something to do with the dress code: you can get down to business in your bathrobe (or nothing at all). The downside, I&#039;ve learned the hard way, is that it&#039;s just too easy to find yourself working all the time. That&#039;s why I now go out every morning to a funky rented office around the corner.]]></description>
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<title>If someone in your life has bipolar disorder, check this out now!</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Here&#039;s another sign that the media are at last portraying the mentally ill as fully rounded people you might know and love. On the New York Times web site, you can watch men and women with bipolar disorder speak frankly and powerfully about their incurable but treatable condition. And they&#039;re using their real names, too.]]></description>
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<title>My sister and me: the next chapter</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:13:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last fall my sister Joyce and I shared the truth of our tangled, sometimes crazy-making, never less than loving relationship in MORE magazine. Heartfelt comments have been coming our way ever since. If you missed our essays, here&#039;s where to find them online, plus the next chapter of the story.]]></description>
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<title>Meet Rona Maynard at Read for the Cure on October 18</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;ve always enjoyed connecting face-to-face with readers, and my next gig promises to be the most rewarding yet. I&#039;ll be joining Giller Prize winners Vincent Lam and David Adams Richards when Read for the Cure comes to Oakville on October 15.]]></description>
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<title>Where will we go when we're not flying or driving?</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ July used to be vacation time, when my city cleared out and I felt like the queen of the sidewalk. Now swarming crowds tell me people are staying home in the new era of soaring gas prices and stripped-down flight schedules. Perhaps that&#039;s not such a bad thing. Traveling less will challenge us all to seek other kinds of adventures, creatively, socially and intellectually. ]]></description>
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<title>Learning to sleep</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I never guessed I&#039;d become dependent on sleeping pills, but night after night of tossing and turning made a desperate woman of me. Now it&#039;s time to start getting through the night without the insomniac&#039;s little helper. So I&#039;ve just started a course of sleep behaviour therapy.]]></description>
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<title>Speak up if you support the Governor General</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Canada&#039;s Governor General, Michaelle Jean, has always struck me as a woman of vision and courage, the kind of pathfinder you&#039;d want your daughter to become. Her quiet resolve was in the spotlight when she presented Dr. Henry Morgentaler with the Order of Canada. Now she&#039;s facing a tidal wave of anger from pro-lifers while polls show most Canadians are on her side. I&#039;ve been silent until now myself. But that&#039;s going to change right now. It&#039;s time she heard from the rest of us.]]></description>
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<title>A sad, solemn, necessary thing</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:22:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When Dr. Henry Morgentaler received the Order of Canada for his unstinting, often life-threatening efforts to make abortion safe, legal and accessible, I thought he deserved the honour. Yet I couldn&#039;t rejoice; it would have felt like clapping at a funeral. I had no words to frame my conflicted thoughts until I watched a brave, remorseless movie about illegal abortion in Romania&#039;s darkest days.]]></description>
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<title>In search of the perfect dress</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Once I owned my idea of the perfect summer dress. It brought out my freewheeling side, and I wore it until it fell apart. When I spotted an identical dress on a young sales clerk, I wanted to rip it off her in a moment of extreme fashion lust.]]></description>
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<title>The Hillary I'll be watching</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:35:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I wanted to vote for Hillary Clinton, and yet she disappointed me. Her rigid demeanour told me that in the 21st century, a woman of intelligence and fire is still not free to be herself. There must have been moments when she asked herself, &quot;What if the worst happens?&quot; Now she knows, and it must be a relief. As a woman roughly her age, I can&#039;t wait to see where she goes from here.]]></description>
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<title>Mental illness and the media: they can't look away anymore</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ There isn&#039;t any annual drive to wear a ribbon to fight mental illness. Corporate sponsors aren&#039;t flocking to bankroll fun runs for this largely invisible cause, even though one in seven of us will suffer from a mental illness at some point. But let&#039;s remember that no so long ago, breast cancer was also a shameful secret that touched every family. Then the press took notice. And now, at long last, mental illness is attracting the coverage it deserves.]]></description>
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<title>A lesson in courage from Martha Graham</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Martha Graham, the Picasso of dance, was still poor and unknown when the Nazis invited her to appear at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She had the courage to refuse. Reading this story, as Agnes DeMille tells it in a mesmerizing classic biography, gives me a jolt of courage.]]></description>
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<title>Portrait of the artist as a young woman blown off course</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ In The Red Leather Diary, first-time author Lily Koppel turns the long-forgotten journal of a spirited Manhattan teenager named Florence Wolfson into a tender-hearted portrait of a woman who longed to be a writer but instead became the proper matron her parents wanted her to be.]]></description>
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<title>A smile between strangers</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s been a few decades since I was last accosted on the street by a strange man keen to tell me something. But last week I was hailed by a local shopkeeper who&#039;d been watching me go by every day. I was always smiling, he said. And he just had to thank me.]]></description>
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<title>A reunion in my online neighbourhood</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When a stranger Googled &quot;mother daughter,&quot; she rekindled a cherished old connection right here in the mother/daughter gallery at ronamaynard.com. ]]></description>
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<title>What have you accomplished in your life?</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ One way or another, I&#039;ve spent my whole career sharing stories. I thought I was making a book, an article, a magazine or a web site. All along I was striving to create something bigger: a sense that the ordinary life means something. So I was moved to tears by a quiet little gem of a movie called The Visitor, which captures both the accessibility of meaning to us all and the emotional risk that is the price of admission.]]></description>
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<title>Missing Sheela</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Life without recipes (or time in the kitchen)</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Not so long ago, I cooked dinner every day from scratch. I basted, I simmered, I marinated and turned at intervals prescribed by my latest glossy cookbook. Enough of all that, I say! Now I mostly just saute and grill whatever looks fresh at the market. But we still eat well thanks to a few ingredients that elevate the humblest meal. A big hand, please, for avocados, bacon, anchovies, pesto and olive oil.]]></description>
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<title>Rona Maynard shares the highs, lows and lessons of her life in magazines</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Rona Maynard started out as a lowly copy editor with no qualifications except a lifelong passion for magazines. She rose to the Editor&#039;s chair at Chatelaine, where she attracted a new generation of readers by rekindling the spark of community. Intimate conversation was Rona&#039;s editorial trademark, and now she&#039;s bringing it to MagNet for a Q&amp;A with D.B. Scott. Join her on Friday, June 6, as she looks back on the lessons of her eventful career, and forward to the challenges that face magazines in an era of brutal competition.]]></description>
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<title>Invisible afflictions</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 06:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I like to think I know how a life-threatening illness looks. Sunken eyes, pale skin, baldness from chemotherapy. But who am I kidding? Every day in Canada, where health care is the closest thing we have to a national religion, 10 people die of an invisible infliction. They take their own lives. Until the unthinkable happened, they blended right in with the rest of us. If we really value health as much as we claim, why don&#039;t we give mental illnesses the attention and resources they deserve?]]></description>
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<title>&amp;quot;Such a lovely family, we never saw it coming&amp;quot;</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 04:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When I read the grim news about a suspected domestic homicide in a picture-book Calgary family, I immediately thought of Mary Swan&#039;s arresting and devastatingly assured first novel, The Boys in the Trees.]]></description>
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<title>A rhubarb pie between friends</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 03:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Now is the moment for homemade rhubarb pie, and my mother&#039;s were transcendent. After she died, I thought no one would ever again bake a rhubarb pie just to delight me. Then one spring at the height of rhubarb season, I went to see a friend who was terminally ill. She had a rhubarb patch. And despite my protests, she insisted on baking me a pie.]]></description>
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<title> Are online friendships for real? Rona answers the question in Best Health</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Rona Maynard once viewed online friendships as a threat to the time-honoured graces of real-world friendship (the dinner date, the hand-written note, the phone call just to say hello). That was before she learned to use the Internet to deepen old ties and make new ones possible. Read more in the summer 2008 issue of Best Health, the new magazine from Reader&#039;s Digest.]]></description>
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<title>Away from it all</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When we rented a getaway cottage in Maine one long-ago summer, we pictured ourselves eating fresh-caught lobster on a deck overlooking the water. Little did we know we had rented the homeliest of yurts.]]></description>
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<title>Home at last!</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 10:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ There comes a point in even the most special vacation when my thoughts drift homeward to my own bed, my own books and paintings, my own fridge stocked the way I like it, with maple syrup, organic yogurt and hazelnut butter for my morning fruit-and-nut toast.]]></description>
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<title>The joyous gastronomic bargains of Argentina</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Argentina reminds me of that gorgeous, prodigiously gifted friend who can&acute;t seem to get her act together. She has infallibly bad taste in men, and a habit of dwelling on her tortured family past. Still, she&acute;s so much fun that you want to be around her. And much of the pleasure unfolds at the table, where fabulous food and wines of distinction can be had for a fraction of what you&acute;d have to pay almost anywhere else.]]></description>
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<title>A temple of books in Buenos Aires</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 12:19:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Some say Buenos Aires is the city of tango. Others say it&acute;s the city of soccer. Let me be the one to tell you it&acute;s a city of independent bookstores, including the most extraordinary shrine to the printed word I&acute;ve yet seen anywhere.]]></description>
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<title>A schlepper at Mount Aconcagua</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:21:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Mind if I brag for a minute? After all, it&acute;s not every traveler who follows in the footsteps of the world&acute;s greatest climbers, drawn by the forbidding power of Mount Aconcagua, the tallest peak outside the Himalays.]]></description>
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<title>A fine day in Mendoza, Argentina</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ This brilliant fall day in Argentine wine country, I&acute;ve done nothing at all except absorb the sights and sounds of a new place. Knowing it&acute;s spring back home makes the whole experience more refreshing.]]></description>
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<title>A few delicious bites from the buffet of travel</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 09:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ A trip is like a breakfast buffet. I want to taste everything because it looks so tempting, and because at home I can&acute;t start my day with scrambled eggs unless I&acute;m going to scramble them myself. So of course I overdo it. The reality is, I&acute;ll never taste it all. ]]></description>
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<title>Books for the plane: my on-board survival kit</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Remember the good old days of air travel? You got a free pillow in a cardboard-y cover, you could take your biggest tube of hand cream on board and you didn&#039;t get dinged for an extra bag. Ah, luxury! Now the airlines have left us just one tiny indulgence: we can carry all the books we can stow beneath our seats. Thank goodness, because I&#039;m bracing myself for a 12-hour flight to Buenos Aires.]]></description>
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<title>At long last, a vacation!</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ You&#039;ll be hearing from me less often these next several weeks. As I write this, I&#039;m packing for our trip to South America. Correction: I should be packing.]]></description>
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<title>Seen once, remembered forever: a tale of time and travel</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I used to think I&#039;d return to all the travel destinations that have stirred my soul. Now I&#039;ve had to face reality: too many enticing places to see, not enough years of healthy wandering. And if I go back to the Alhambra, I might miss the Great Wall of China. ]]></description>
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<title>Tossers and hoarders</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;ve never had any truck with pompous types who claim that there are two kinds of people in the world, except when I&#039;m the one making the pronouncement. So I am here to tell you that among those who own worldly goods, a spiritual and moral divide separates the tossers from the hoarders. We tossers get a self-righteous charge from purging every corner of stuff we deem to have served its purpose. As you&#039;ve doubtless observed from all those articles and web sites that exalt the &quot;conquering&quot; of clutter, our camp has the upper hand these days.]]></description>
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<title>Brilliantly bad prose: a celebration long overdue</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ All my life I have laboured to write well. But perhaps I&#039;ve been trying too hard. I&#039;ve just realized I may never craft a sentence as memorable as a whole flight of exuberantly bad sentences that appeared in my home-town paper back in 1972 and have resonated in my mind ever since. Trust me, to write this badly takes nerve, swagger and a kind of reckless brilliance.]]></description>
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<title>Another face of my city</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The city I thought I knew like a friend revealed another side of itself when my husband and I took a long evening walk through urban corners we&#039;d never explored. Right on our own turf, we had a mini-vacation that was full of surprises.]]></description>
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<title>A friend to homeless women (and at least one first-time author)</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I didn&#039;t remember meeting Lia Grimanis, a spirited advocate for homeless women. But she remembered meeting me at a crowded reception. And when she bought my book, she took a minute to cheer me on.]]></description>
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<title>Breaking my own rules</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;ve always chafed against killjoy restrictions (never do this, always do that). Then I realized who the ultimate enforcer was. Me.]]></description>
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<title>Petals and thorns</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:12:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ If there&#039;s anyone who understands what it means to stand firm in a crisis, it&#039;s my friend Sheela Basrur, whose leadership during Toronto&#039;s SARS outbreak captured hearts and minds across the land. Now she has cancer, but cancer doesn&#039;t have Sheela. Last week I took a break from move-related mayhem to celebrate Sheela&#039;s latest honour, the Order of Ontario. I came away refreshed by the wisdom she shared at the podium.]]></description>
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<title>Eat here, diet at home</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:58:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;ve yet to sample the famous burgers at the Patrician Grill, but whoever runs this joint has a delicious way with words.]]></description>
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<title>Moving day</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Some women have ex-husbands. I have ex-homes. Yesterday I let the movers carry all the traces of myself and my husband out yet another door. The time had come to live somewhere else (together, thank goodness). Even so, it hurt to leave home.]]></description>
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<title>My cast-off hat finds the perfect home</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The most absurd fashion purchase I&#039;ve ever made was a navy blue cloche that cost way too much and never fit right. But it looks stunning on my friend Christa, who blogs about fashion at Petite Fashionista. May she wear it long and well. ]]></description>
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<title>A community of readers</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ What I learned from giving my cast-off fiction and poetry to Sanctuary, a charity that befriends the the scorned and forgotten.]]></description>
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<title>Goodbye, home office</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ For more than 30 years, I&#039;ve had a home office where I could write in my bathrobe before dawn if the spirit moved me. I thought I&#039;d found the room of my own that every woman writer needs, according to Virginia Woolf. Then along came the Internet with all its distractions. Instead of writing, I&#039;m buying furniture and booking vacations. So I&#039;ve made a momentous decision. Starting now, I&#039;ll get dressed every morning and go out to work.]]></description>
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<title>Working for the wife</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ A new breed of woman entrepreneur is proving that sometimes the best employee is your husband. Rona Maynard gets the inside story from four of the pathfinders.]]></description>
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<title>Age and beauty: Rona's latest article in More magazine</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ In &quot;If looks could thrill,&quot; 50-something Rona Maynard finds a new beauty role model: a confident, stylish, unBotoxed woman who just happens to be over 60.]]></description>
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<title>Department of amazing coincidences</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The big city became a very small small world indeed when I discovered that we&#039;d bought our new home from our grandson&#039;s cousin.]]></description>
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<title>My secret bond with Jimmy Page</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ My heart goes out to Jimmy Page. The celebrated Led Zeppelin guitarist has to sell a cherished $2 million tapestry because he&#039;s run out of wall space in his mansions. I know how he feels, because the walls in our new loft won&#039;t hold a custom-made piece of neon art that doesn&#039;t mean a dime to anyone but me. Oh, the exquisite agony! ]]></description>
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<title>The wage gap: is the glass ceiling really to blame?</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:22:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ We all know that day care workers earn peanuts, while engineers collect big bucks. So steering women into science courses ought to boost their earning potential. It hasn&#039;t worked out that way. In a provocative new book called The Sexual Paradox, psychologist Susan Pinker argues that well-intentioned efforts to close the wage gap have devalued women&#039;s real desires and motivations. Women don&#039;t see the world as men do, she says. And the reason is rooted in our brains.]]></description>
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<title>Lunch for the soul</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ There&#039;s not much left in my kitchen these days as we gear up to move. But right until the last day, I&#039;ll have the makings of my favourite last-minute lunch: the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich. I&#039;ve made all-day ragus that aren&#039;t nearly as delicious.]]></description>
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<title>Claiming the keys: a homeowner's love story</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ A naked home, when you&#039;ve just acquired it, is like a naked lover who has just left his date-night clothes on your floor for the very first time.]]></description>
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<title>Going, going, gone: my great pre-move giveaway</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Some people have yard sales to unload their excess baggage. I wouldn&#039;t bother, even if I had a yard and a brilliant spring day for displaying my cast-offs to the world. Too much work, I say. And besides, I get a buzz out of giving dust-catchers away to people who will really use them.]]></description>
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<title>Temporarily cool: ronamaynard.com gets an accolade</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:14:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I hadn&#039;t even heard of the Open Directory when they &quot;cooled&quot; my interactive web site, which just goes to show the limits of my coolness. Just when I got excited, my cool rating disappeared. Now it&#039;s back, for now. But like other good things in life, coolness is a temporary pleasure.]]></description>
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<title>Is a husband just a partner in life's everyday grind?</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ It was my husband of 37 years who handed me the March issue of The Atlantic and told me not to miss a punchy piece called &quot;Marry Him,&quot; in which rueful never-married mother Lori Gottlieb makes &quot;the case for settling for Mr. Good Enough.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>Just another tourist in search of transcendence</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;m not sure what I expected to find at the Grand Canyon. Beauty, certainly, but that&#039;s the wrong word for a chasm so vast and start, you can fly over it and see no end. A remarkable short story, &quot;Abyss&quot; by Richard Ford, took me straight to the dark heart of that feeling.]]></description>
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<title>A Joni Mitchell moment on my winter vacation</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:58:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ You wouldn&#039;t think there&#039;s any call for fake rocks in southern Utah. The place teems with real ones, majestically sculptured by nature over many millions of years. But the strangest things happen when you start paving paradise.]]></description>
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<title>The best thing that happened this week</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ She used to be my protegee. Now she&#039;s my friend and peer. As her mentor, I learned that the greatest reward of leadership is preparing others to lead.  So I was proud and delighted to recommend her for a well-deserved award.]]></description>
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<title>The power of reading: Val Ross in her own words</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Monday&#039;s post about Val Ross, my friend and colleague who died last weekend at age 57, has touched off a continuing flurry of messages from visitors to this site. Some of you say you wish you could have known her. You can, through her captivating words. Here is an excerpt from You Can&#039;t Read This, Val&#039;s history of lost and forbidden books through the ages.]]></description>
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<title>Neither young nor a lady</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The 20-something waiter called my husband &quot;sir.&quot; He addressed me as &quot;young lady.&quot; He did it once, he did it twice, and at the rate we were going he&#039;d be doing it all evening, this rosy-cheeked kid who was younger than my son. The last time this happened, I bit my tongue. But the best part of growing older is the freedom to speak your mind.]]></description>
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<title>Two bowls of soup: in memory of Val Ross</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:50:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Readers knew Val Ross as an award-winning journalist and author. Countless people knew her as a friend of rare integrity and grace. I was blessed to be among them. This is my tribute to Val, who died in Toronto of a brain tumour on February 17, at age 57.]]></description>
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<title>My favourite first sentences</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ A great first sentence pulls the reader into the story. Even more important, it gives the writer heart to keep on telling the story in the first place. Here, a baker&#039;s dozen of the best, culled from novels I&#039;ve loved through the decades.]]></description>
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<title>The essential dinner-time ceremony</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ For years my husband has opened an interesting wine as we sat down to dinner. This year he&#039;s on the wagon. As recently as a few months ago, this decision would have unnerved me. Now I understand that conversation, not wine, is really what makes dinner special.]]></description>
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<title>My sweet unlikely home</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When we cashed out of our dream condo, we thought we&#039;d go back to a sensible house. Lo and behold, we&#039;ve bought an eccentrically beautiful loft instead. It&#039;s just the kind of bohemian pad that I aspired to back as a teenage rebel. In my 50s, I&#039;ve discovered it&#039;s not too late to have what I always wanted.]]></description>
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<title>My other online hangout</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ My favourite web site, of course, is this one. But I do have another online hangout that serves a different purpose. It&#039;s called Teebeedee.com, and it&#039;s like a summer camp for the over-40 crowd. It&#039;s a place where we can learn, tell stories and have a lot of fun just being ourselves.]]></description>
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<title>Ottawa Art Gallery features Max Maynard in a new show of landscape painting</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ An early Max Maynard landscape of the Cowichan Valley will appear in the Ottawa Art Gallery&#039;s new exhibiton &quot;Deep Roots,&quot; on view February 2 to May 4. Rona Maynard&#039;s father is in distinguished company: other featured landscape artists include Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Edwin Holgate and A.Y. Jackson. ]]></description>
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<title>Learning to love my gray hair</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Eight years ago, I made a decision that changed my life. I stopped pretending that my hair was still a rich, dark brown. At the time I was Editor of Chatelaine, where we featured my makeover from brown to gray. Next thing I knew, grateful middle-aged readers were pulling off my hat to admire my silver tresses.]]></description>
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<title>The woman with the Canadian flag: an urban encounter</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:13:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I thought it must be a crime or an accident that had brought police and paramedics to a busy intersection in my city. In fact it was the cortege for a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan. And a woman he never knew was determined to him]]></description>
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<title>Hiring your husband: Rona talks with trail-blazing women who've done it</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ In old-school family businesses, Pop ran the show while Mom tended the files. Now a new breed of husband is proud to work for his wife. And she wouldn&#039;t have it any other way. Sound too good to be true? 
Read Rona Maynard&#039;s eye-opening article &quot;Working for the Wife&quot; in the February/March issue of MORE, Canada&#039;s magazine celebrating women over 40.]]></description>
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<title>A brief history of my hair</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From a botched Toni home permanent to the risks and rewards of going gray, the story of my hair has been the story of my life. Let&#039;s face it, to be female iis to struggle with your hair.]]></description>
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<title>Mending a tear in the family fabric</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:11:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Growing up, I never knew I had a first cousin named Rosemary Woolery. Her father and mine were brothers in a complicated family where people seldom to spoke to one another. She died years ago. But thanks to her daughter Louisa, I&#039;ve met her right here on this site in the Mother/Daughter Gallery.

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<title>Could you love your gray hair? Rona explores the question on Sounds Like Canada</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:15:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Is gray hair an old-ladyish career killer or the sign of a modern woman who&#039;s not afraid to be herself? Shelagh Rogers will pose the question to Rona (who&#039;s been happily gray for eight years), journalist Mary Wiens and career expert Barbara Moses. Tune in to Sounds Like Canada on Monday, January 25, at 11 a.m. in all time zones. Here&#039;s to a lively and eye-opening discussion.]]></description>
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<title>My Mother - Rosemary Maynard Woolery</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:06:36 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The one thing that brings my mother to the forefront... Posted by Louisa Woolery. ]]></description>
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<title>My googleganger and me</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I thought I must be the only Rona Maynard until I Googled myself and found another one online. Who was this woman? And why did it bother me to share my name with someone else?]]></description>
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<title>My city, myself</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://ronamaynard.com/index.php?my-city-myself</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Toronto I&#039;ve called home for my entire adult life is becoming an angrier, lonelier place. I could rage against this trend, but I know I&#039;m complicit.]]></description>
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<title>Unreal estate: the secret language of real estate ads</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://ronamaynard.com/index.php?unreal-estate-the-secret-language-of-real-estate-ads</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The real meaning of &quot;million-dollar view,&quot; &quot;executive home&quot; and other terms that perplex the weary home buyer. How do I know? I&#039;ve been out there pounding the pavement and I&#039;m here to share my hard-earned wisdom.]]></description>
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<title>Adventures in real estate</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:48:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Looking for a home is like looking for love. You hope the next listing will be The One. You tell yourself you can make this work. But when you realize it won&#039;t, there&#039;s always tomorrow.]]></description>
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<title>My first book club</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Meeting with book clubs is as much a part of being an author as rewriting the same pesky sentence 129 times. Thank goodness book club meetings are a lot more fun.]]></description>
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<title>Selling my dream home</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Now that I&#039;m about to be homeless, I finally understand that home is a state of mind.]]></description>
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<title>The parents you never knew</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:38:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ One of the hardest things for every more or less grownup person to understand is that our parents had complex lives, full of dreams and hopes and fears, before we came along.]]></description>
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<title>Losing your parents and living better</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s not quite acceptable to admit it, but a parent&#039;s death can free the children to become their best selves.]]></description>
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<title>Rona Maynard goes to Broadway</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Check out the January issue of Reader&#039;s Digest Canada for Rona&#039;s story on her appearance in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, now coming to Toronto.]]></description>
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<title>A tourist in the kingdom of baseball</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:15:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The secret of a lasting marriage has more than a little to do with exploring your spouse&#039;s burning interests. I never managed to develop a passion for baseball. Still, I&#039;m glad I made the effort.]]></description>
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<title>My perfect Christmas tree</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Real or artificial? Who cares? Anyone can buy the Christmas tree. Only I can decorate it with the lovingly collected ornaments that make it mine.]]></description>
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<title>Here's to good readers</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:52:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Good readers are a lot like good life partners. They don&#039;t expect to love the whole package; they just want a rich experience that rewards the gift of their attention.]]></description>
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<title>My two children: the son and the book</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When I wrote My Mother&#039;s Daughter, I learned to forget about tangible results and let the work become its own reward. After years of corporate life, this felt a little strange. But it wasn&#039;t really. I have raised a son, and for parents there are no benchmarks except your own love and commitment.]]></description>
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<title>More words to live by</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The latest insights I&#039;ve cribbed from people who know something I don&#039;t.]]></description>
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<title>As long as I'm a mother...</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Just because I no longer listen for the click of my son&#039;s key in the front door doesn&#039;t mean I&#039;ve outgrown the habit of maternal worry.]]></description>
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<title>Not your average dinner party</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:57:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Why every woman should see Judy Chicago&#039;s stunning work &quot;The Dinner Party,&quot; which is 28 years old and still charged with excitement]]></description>
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<title>The woman who lived on words</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ It wasn&#039;t easy to be friends with Margaret Gibson, a ferociously original writer who struggled with severe mental illness. But by reading her a poem I knew she&#039;d love, I found a moment of grace.]]></description>
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<title>My favourite dish</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Instead of homemade fettucine and other grand culinary productions, I stick to simple pleasures like this mustard-grilled flank steak.]]></description>
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<title>My morning laugh</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I can count on The Onion&#039;s bang-on satire to light up the most ho-hum day.]]></description>
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<title>A moment of grace in cyberspace</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ You never know how an online encounter with a stranger is going to enlarge your life. This morning, an e-mail from a stranger did precisely that.]]></description>
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<title>Five minutes alone with Leonard Cohen</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ A poem is the perfect busy woman&#039;s read. It slips into the day&#039;s unexpected quiet places like a cat into a lap.]]></description>
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<title>Style therapy</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Why buy an &quot;it bag&quot; that won&#039;t work as my bag? Let fashionistas chase the trends of the moment; I&#039;ll stick to wearable talismans that will lift my spirits for years.]]></description>
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<title>Words to live by</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Culled from my recent reading: wise thoughts from Norman Mailer, Mary Pipher and Sandra Oh.]]></description>
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<title>What's so funny?</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ To truly appreciate Blazing Saddles, the classic spoof western by Mel Brooks, you have to watch it with a kid for whom the only thing funnier than a fart is a whole gleeful chorus of farts.]]></description>
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<title>Rona's book is monthly pick for businesswomen's e-newsletter</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:19:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Company of Women, an innovative organization that connects Ontario businesswomen professionally and personally, highlights My Mother&#039;s Daughter by Rona Maynard in its monthly e-newsletter.]]></description>
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<title>Sleeping for success</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ &quot;The Sleep Industrial Complex,&quot; a provocative cover story in the New York Times Magazine, won&#039;t tell you how to get the sleep of your dreams. But it does explain why you&#039;re so worried about those precious eight hours. I feel your pain.]]></description>
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<title>Written on the body</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:50:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The scars and sags on my body are like dings on a well-used car. But to me these so-called &quot;imperfections&quot; are mementos of where I&#039;ve been and what&#039;s happened along the way.]]></description>
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<title>I'm new to this game myself</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ What I&#039;ve learned about writing from June Callwood, Roger Daltrey and the sheer discombobulating thrill of being a beginner instead of the &quot;veteran&quot; I used to be.]]></description>
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<title>Rona's latest speeches: power, mentorship and success</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ November is a busy speaking month for Rona Maynard. She&#039;s sharing her real-life wisdom on success and mentorship with the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Health Canada and the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce.]]></description>
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<title>Now available! The reading guide for My Mother's Daughter</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Now ready for your book club: Rona Maynard&#039;s own questions about her memoir, My Mother&#039;s Daughter.]]></description>
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<title>Question of the day: overcoming depression</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:47:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ You often speak and write about overcoming depression. What made you decide to go public, when so many people are ashamed to admit that mental illness has touched their lives?]]></description>
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<title>Friends no matter what</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Like a good marriage, the good friendship bends and expands to accommodate life&#039;s transitions.]]></description>
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<title>How old is grown-up?</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The older I get, the younger I feel inside. And I&#039;m in good company. My newest role model, 65-year-old soul diva Aretha Franklin, says she&#039;s planning to overcome fear of flying and study classical piano.]]></description>
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<title>Reasons for loving</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:10:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When a friend fell gravely ill, I didn&#039;t know what to do or how to help. So I filled a note card with all the things I love about her.]]></description>
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<title>Question of the day: the difference between sons and daughters</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Your only child is a son, yet you write about the mother/daughter bond. Are you sorry that you never had a daughter? ]]></description>
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<title>Sharing happiness</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ A cherished poem can bring friends together. For me, the ultimate pass-along poem is Jane Kenyon&#039;s wonderfully consoling &quot;Happiness.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>Listen to Rona's interview with CBC Radio One</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:14:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ &quot;A mother teaches her daughter, for good and ill, what it means to be a woman,&quot; Rona tells Jo-Ann Roberts of CBC radio in Victoria. &quot;A mother is the keeper of hopes, but also of warnings.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>Paper birds</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:13:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ My father, Max Maynard, never finished anything. So the the family legend went. When he joined A.A., determined to quit drinking in old age, he never quite pulled it off. But he made an honest effort, and that&#039;s what matters now.]]></description>
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<title>Rona goes restaurant reviewing with National Post critic Gina Mallet</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:48:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Rona has a walk-on part in a review of Gallery Grill by National Post restaurant critic Gina Mallet. Actually, it&#039;s more than a walk-on: she&#039;s quoted with cries of delight. The pair were celebrating the end of Rona&#039;s frantic book tour.]]></description>
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<title>London Free Press praises &amp;quot;style and verve&amp;quot; of My Mother's Daughter</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Rona Maynard tells her story with &quot;style and verve&quot; in her &quot;angry yet exultant memoir,&quot; says reviewer Nancy Schiefer. ]]></description>
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<title>The doors in my head</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:23:00 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://ronamaynard.com/index.php?the-doors-in-my-head</link>
<description><![CDATA[ New possibilities are everywhere, at every age. It&#039;s all a question of seeing them.]]></description>
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<title>Read a profile of Rona in Moods magazine</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:57:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Rona Maynard&#039;s comeback from depression is the fall cover story in Moods, a unique magazine for people coping with mood disorders.]]></description>
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<title>Still married after all these years</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:09:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Like a fine bottle of wine, young lovers need time to lose their rough edges and reveal their best selves. Sometimes I wonder how we did it. ]]></description>
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<title>Join the conversation between Rona and Dale Goldhawk of Rogers TV</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The lines will be open at Rogers TV when Rona sits down with Dale Goldhawk to talk about a subject close to her heart: depression. ]]></description>
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<title>The truth about looking younger</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Back when I was going to bars with fake ID, I&#039;d do anything to look older. I thought I&#039;d always have this problem. Now I&#039;m always on the lookout for ways to look younger. Here&#039;s some unconventional wisdom.]]></description>
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<title>My Mother - Betty Postill</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:26:02 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ There are many stories about the courage my mother conjured... Posted by Terry Poulton. ]]></description>
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<title>Robert Fulford calls Rona's book &amp;quot;engrossing and eloquent&amp;quot;</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ National Post columnist Robert Fulford praises My Mother&#039;s Daughter while assessing the legacy of Rona&#039;s artist father, Max Maynard.]]></description>
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<title>Like a fish without a bicycle</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Once upon a time, feminists weren&#039;t supposed to admit that they actually needed a man. I thought we&#039;d left those days behind. But in a lively new book, feminist heroine Katha Pollitt admits to being a world-class fool for love. And some of her biggest fans are up in arms.]]></description>
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<title>Read the Globe interview with Rona</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Sarah Hampson of the Globe calls My Mother&#039;s Daughter &quot;a beautifully told story of a horrific childhood.&quot; We have to question &quot;horrific,&quot; but we&#039;re not about to quibble with &quot;beautifully told.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>Scrambling for the back seat</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Some women don&#039;t aim for leadership until they see that other people are already following. Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin is a perfect example, and she&#039;s honest own enough to talk about her battle with fear of failure.]]></description>
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<title>The envelope, please</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s been close to 20 years since my mother was alive to send me letters. Then a friend of hers appeared with the ultimate gift: a lost letter, full of feeling and insight.]]></description>
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<title>The gift of gratitude</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I can&#039;t demand gratitude of others, but I can cultivate it in myself. Thank goodness!]]></description>
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<title>Winnipeg Free Press applauds My Mother's Daughter</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Rona Maynard is indeed her mother&#039;s daughter, says the Free Press--&quot;brilliant, creative, feisty, fallible, honest, introspective and a terrific writer.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>A plan for kid-friendly communities</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When kids run wild on safe streets, they stretch their minds and bodies while learning a sense of fair play. Now traditional childhood games are all but forgotten. A Canadian hero aims to turn things around, and she\&#039;s looking for help.]]></description>
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<title>Watch Rona's interview on Fine Print</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Passionate reader Carolyn Weaver speaks with Rona about mothers, daughters and becoming one&#039;s own woman.]]></description>
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<title>Readers fall in love with My Mother's Daughter</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ &quot;I couldn&#039;t put it down,&quot; readers say. ]]></description>
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<title>A tale of two sisters</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:28:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ My sister Joyce and I share a complicated heritage of rivalry, love and disappointment. For years we didn&#039;t speak. Then at last we were able to embrace possibility instead of standing guard against pain.]]></description>
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<title>The compliment conundrum</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ We love to tell other women what&#039;s special about themselves.  So why do we brush off compliments directed our way?]]></description>
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<title>Age cannot wither her</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:09:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I hadn&#039;t thought of Patricia since she taught me English 35 years ago. Now here she was beside me on the subway platform, looking proudly and stylishly herself]]></description>
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<title>My Mother - Joanne Thompson</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:07:21 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[      &quot;You are so like your... Posted by Tiffany Anderson. ]]></description>
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<title>Looking for Mousie</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I tried to shield my child from the pain of loss, but losing is an art that every child needs to learn.]]></description>
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<title>Hear Rona's interview with The Commentary</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://ronamaynard.com/index.php?hear-ronas-interview-with-the-commentary</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Commentary, an online arts and current affairs publication, calls My Mother&#039;s Daughter &quot;candid and absorbing.&quot; ]]></description>
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<title>My Mother - Amelia</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:39:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Growing up, I always thought my mother Amelia was &quot;different&quot;.... Posted by Sarah. ]]></description>
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<title>Question of the day: why another Maynard family memoir?</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:21:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Your mother and your sister both wrote memoirs. Now you&#039;ve joined the family business with your own memoir, My Mother&#039;s Daughter. Why did you choose to write another book about the Maynard family instead of an original story?]]></description>
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<title>Holden Caulfield revisited</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:13:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s been more than 40 years since I fell in love with Salinger&#039;s hero, and he&#039;s not the same adorable guy. He&#039;s prickly, judgmental and afraid to grow up. But I still really want to hear about it. And The Catcher in the Rye is still a great book.]]></description>
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<title>My kingdom for a good night's sleep</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Back when I could sleep through anything, I waged a nightly campaign to stave off bedtime. Oh, the irony!]]></description>
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<title>Bringing it all back home</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:21:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I thought I never wanted to return to the prairie city where my mother came of age. But it&#039;s where she fell in love with my father, and where she used to struggle with her own formidable mother. Now Winnipeg is where my book tour begins. And I&#039;m keen to revisit my family&#039;s roots.]]></description>
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<title>Globe calls My Mother's Daughter &amp;quot;a moving tribute&amp;quot;</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Globe and Mail reviewer Elizabeth Grove-White concludes, &quot;Maynard&#039;s memoir taps into the witches&#039; brew of clear-eyed candour and emotional ambivalence that colours many of our mother/daughter relationships.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>Question of the day: what a journalist needs to know</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:57:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;m a high school student and aspiring journalist making plans for university. Should I major in English or journalism?]]></description>
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<title>A few of my favourite books</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Toronto Star applauds My Mother's Daughter</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:22:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Reviewer Robin Harvey calls My Mother&#039;s Daughter &quot;searingly honest&quot; and &quot;a most compelling read.&quot; ]]></description>
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<title>Rona's book goes to Harvard</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Paula J. Caplan, a leading feminist thinker and author, is recommending My Mother&#039;s Daughter to her students in a Harvard course entitled &quot;Myths of Motherhood.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>A better life than hers</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:10:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Every generation of women aspires to what mom didn&#039;t have. Now it&#039;s baby boomers&#039; turn to be told that our frantic lives didn&#039;t cut it. ]]></description>
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<title>Get real! Motherhood revisited</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Rona Maynard&#039;s book about her relationship with her mother reveals the impossible expectations we all place on our own mum]]></description>
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<title>Hear Rona's speech for Gift of Wisdom breakfast series on October 29</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:44:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Meet Rona at the Arcadian Court, 401 Bay St., Toronto, to learn how the mother/daughter bond can point the way to success in the workplace. ]]></description>
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<title>What women want...and other discoveries from the hot tub</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Take a happily exhausted group of hikers from all over. Add soothing hot water. Listen to the stories that prove we&#039;re more alike than different.]]></description>
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<title>Mommy's too old</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:54:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When a woman in her 50s or 60s becomes pregnant, she has another shot at youth. But what does she lose?]]></description>
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<title>Question of the day: how can I make peace between my warring daughters?</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ You and your sister have written frankly about the difficulties between you. I&#039;m the mother of two young daughters whose relationship is full of pain. I have tried to mitigate my older daughter&#039;s rage and resentment but seemingly to no avail. Do you wish your mother had done something to lessen the pain between you and your sister? Am I unknowingly adding to my daughters&#039; pain?]]></description>
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<title>It's not my problem</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:50:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Liberation means no more search and rescue.]]></description>
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<title>Why I'm still married</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:16:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;ve been married as long as some of my friends have been alive. While they were still putting peas in their ears, my husband and I were dealing loudly and gracelessly with weightier matters like whose turn it was to throw dinner on the table.]]></description>
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<title>Hear Shelagh Rogers' interview with Rona and Joyce Maynard</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Rona and her sister Joyce have just met up on Sounds Like Canada to talk about their 50 years of passion and pain. The childhood rivals recently became collaborators on a joint project for MORE magazine, &quot;A tale of two sisters.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>Question of the day: how can I find Fredelle Maynard's books?</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:16:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Years ago I lent my copy of Raisins and Almonds to someone and never got it back. How can I replace it? I don&#039;t see your mother&#039;s books anywhere.]]></description>
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<title>My Mother - Frances Perodeau</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:44:32 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ My mother died from cancer in 1950, when I was... Posted by Liz Carmichael. ]]></description>
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<title>My Mother - Gertrude S. Jordan</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Mom dreamed of being a music teacher or opera singer.... Posted by Kathleen J. Hemmer. ]]></description>
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<title>Question of the day: was writing your memoir a catharsis?</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ You&#039;ve had a difficult childhood and a history of depression. Did you write your book to get it off your chest?]]></description>
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<title>The necessary art of condolence notes</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Once I went shopping for the perfect black dress to accessorize for any occasion. Now I buy note cards for reaching out to friends in need. And white is the new black.]]></description>
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<title>From the book</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ With her formidable mind and inimitable style, I thought my mother would always be the invincible protector of my childhood. Then came the winter of her confusion.]]></description>
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<title>Every second woman I know is in transition</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ We used to know our place in the world. Then a child left home or a job ended. What next?]]></description>
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<title>Writing the next chapter</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ What&#039;s it like becoming a formerly important person? Rona Maynard tried to do it by the book]]></description>
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<title>The hat that got away</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:19:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ It was perfect in every way, as if the hat gods had created it just for me. But I told myself I couldn&#039;t afford it.]]></description>
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<title>My bicultural identity</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I chose to make Canada my home, but the U.S. is still my native land.]]></description>
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<title>Cats of my life</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ With my cats, I&#039;ve expressed every facet of my character--for better and worse]]></description>
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<title>A parent's place</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I didn&#039;t want to say yes when my right hand man requested an eleventh-hour adoption leave. But I couldn&#039;t afford to say no.]]></description>
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<title>Question of the day: how did you balance your life?</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ You&#039;ve been able to combine career and motherhood. How did you balance your life?]]></description>
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<title>Teachers who changed my life</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Teaching just might be the purest expression of our need to connect with one another.]]></description>
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<title>Life lessons from my local beggars</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ One woman&#039;s struggle with urban guilt]]></description>
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<title>Latest favourite</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:59:18 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The most recent favourite comment.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:59:18 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ View all favourite comments as selected by Rona Maynard.]]></description>
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<title>Why I wrote My Mothers Daughter</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ One January morning in 2005, I sat down at the desk in my home office and wondered what to do with the next phase of my life. I had just left my job at Chatelaine  a job that had defined me for a decade. ]]></description>
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<title>When your mother dies</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:22:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Around the time my mother died, the tender words of other women enveloped me like a quilt stitched by many pairs of hands. Longtime friends, mothers of friends and friends of colleagues, these women had one thing in common: their mothers had died. (&quot;It was 40 years ago,&quot; one said, &quot;and I still think of her every day.&quot;)]]></description>
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<title>Join the mother/daughter community</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:43:42 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://ronamaynard.com/index.php?add-story</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Add your story to the Mother/daughter community.]]></description>
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<title>My Mother - Rakieh Mourtada</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:33:56 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ In memory of Rakieh Mourtada, April 21, 1935 to June... Posted by Rasha Mourtada.]]></description>
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<title>My Mother - Lucia Dell'Agnese</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:29:31 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ When I was four, I had New Mom.  She... Posted by Angelica Siegel.]]></description>
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<title>My Mother - Dorothy Buxton</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:44:08 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ It's 11 a.m. on a Saturday morning, an ungodly hour... Posted by Bonnie Buxton.]]></description>
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<title>Question of the day: What would your mother think?</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Your mother was a formidable character and a tough critic. What would she think of My Mother&#039;s Daughter?]]></description>
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<title>Intimate strangers</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The healing art of confiding in someone you've just met]]></description>
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<title>Sexism and double standards</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:35:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The real reasons critics dislike women's mags.]]></description>
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<title>My day care kid</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:21:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I have a wonderful son. At 24, Ben has friendships that have lasted for close to a decade, passions that range from Greek philosophy to graffiti art and a deep appreciation for women (one woman in particular). ]]></description>
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<title>For bed or for worse</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:19:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Why some of the happiest couples choose to sleep in separate beds]]></description>
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<title>May I help you?</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I have just spent a weekend unpacking from a move. You can picture the results: armfuls of cut-up boxes and a mountain of overstuffed garbage bags full of junk I should have tossed long ago. Late Sunday night, I made what felt like the hundred-and-forty-seventh trip to the garbage room of our new condominium. I was wondering how many more trips I had to go and whether my back would hold out when I heard a friendly voice call, &quot;Let me help you.&quot; ]]></description>
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<title>Food for the soul</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:15:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Every time my whole day falls apart, I know there&#039;s always one last chance to set things right. It&#039;s called dinner. ]]></description>
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<title>What I had to learn about success</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I broke a bad habit: measuring my life against other people&#039;s.  ]]></description>
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<title>Ronas book tour kicks off in Winnipeg September 24.</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Here are the dates for Rona's western tour, as well as Ontario appearances confirmed so far. More dates and details will be added.]]></description>
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<title>Book a Speech</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Book a speech by Rona Maynard.]]></description>
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