It is dangerous to question the right to choose one's gender these days, but I exercise the right to interrogate the milieu in which it takes place. 

Gisèle Pelicot twisted the direction of the blame finger from the woman raped to the men who raped her by inviting the world into a courtroom that, however, falls short of holding accountable the larger social structure that creates and protects sexual predators. 

A horrifying story of a 73-year-old daughter charged with failure to provide necessities of life for her 96-year-old mother rips back the curtain on the high moral cost of under-resourcing elder care. 

A local attempt to encourage engagement in upcoming municipal elections exposes how we structurally discourage good people from running for office.  

Fay appears on the Happy Soul Podcast to have a chat about many topics, including her new book.

This is a delayed part 2 of my earlier rant about the difficulty the world has in appropriately understanding and respecting the role of women. In this salvo, i suggest that older women consider withholding their contribution to community and family life to raise awareness about what exactly it is and how it should be honoured.

The arrival of Dementia Widow into the larger world was greeted by a large and enthusiastic group of eager readers, beautifully hosted by Laurie Jones of Rail's End Gallery in Haliburton.  

A rundown of appearances discussing the new book, both in print and on the radio.

I amplify several suggestions made by Dave Meslin, author of Rebuilding Democracy, in a recent local event, designed to reclaim local democratic process.  Specifically, in preparation for this fall's municipal election, where silly season has already commenced.

An old theme, perhaps a new angle, on the structural exploitation of femaleness in our culture. It's the foundation for a column yet to follow that may be a full-throated rant on I Am Crone, Hear Me Roar. 

Jenn Watt interviewed me on Canoe FM’s The Journey Together for a wide ranging discussion in anticipation Dementia Widow’s launch in March.

A ramble through several perspectives about what we can do to prevent the circumstances that legitimately brought Hitler and Stalin (and an unnamed person to the south) to power, riding a bit on Carney's Davos shirt-tail.

My ruminations after experiencing a Death Café, including my introduction to alkaline cremation, and whether at any level we can decide we've had enough of life and take our leave (naturally: I'm not talking suicide or MAID).

A primary use of Artificial Intelligence is therapy and companionship, truly a terrifying thought given how spectacularly ill-equipped AI is for this work. What can we do to push back?

The issue of whether mental health, including dementia, is eligible for advance request for MAiD is coming back to parliament for decision in spring '27, but discussion should be included in considering Bill C-16 about coercive control, the abuse of power in intimate relationships. I raise many questions; no answers. 

Bill C-16, now before the federal government, intends to protect people 'in relationships of trust and dependence', with an eye to Intimate Partner Violence. Here I suggest it should also include seniors who are nowhere else specifically protected, even though, i argue, they are potentially more vulnerable than children.

Dr. Sally Chivers says what we fear determines how we see the world. Because we fear death, we walk blindly, trepidatiously, into an inevitable 'passing' (to use the word that has replaced 'died', even as we don't talk about the journey).

I visited with the hosts of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach to Long-Term Care project podcast to discuss my visit to Green Care Farms in the Netherlands.

We are reaping the 'reward' of over-protecting our children in the relatively safe real world and abandoning them to very real danger in the cyberworld.