Memoir

My son was born healthy, happy and perfectly pink. Three days later, he was fighting for his life

“The doctor told us that if we wanted to get our baby baptized, we should do it soon”

My mom was on welfare, my dad was a hippie, and my grandparents were two of the richest people in Toronto

A memoir about growing up on both sides of the tracks

The Orthodox Jew who became a gender-reassignment surgeon

As an Orthodox Jew, I was always taught to fear sexuality. Then I discovered my calling

I raised a chicken in my backyard. I loved the fresh eggs, but I hated that bird

“When I crouched beside her Eglu to stare into her beady little eyes, there was no warmth or affection”

I lost my job, my home and my marriage to heroin

A Toronto mom’s addiction memoir

My husband and I adopted a baby with Down syndrome. Now we can’t imagine our lives without him

"People think we're saints or fools"

After two years, $10,000 and hundreds of attempts to cure my rescue dog’s severe separation anxiety, I had to give her up

It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done

I spent 919 days in a North Korean prison

I endured crippling isolation, hard labour and the daily threat of execution. This is how I survived

When I came home from Afghanistan, my PTSD almost killed me. Then I discovered the magic of cannabis

I finally felt like myself again

I spent my first year as a doctor in a rural ER. It was the most exciting job I ever had

At first, I woke up every day with a sense of dread. What if someone died in front of me?

“I’m 99 per cent certain I am your daughter”

When I hired a private detective to find my birth parents, I discovered I had seven siblings, two uncles, four cousins and four grandparents, plus a mom and a dad, all alive

I was a teenager when my father was shot during a robbery gone wrong. Thirty years later, I befriended his murderer

Glen wasn’t just my dad’s killer. He was a father, a husband, a man living with an unspeakable mistake

I never learned to read properly in school. It wasn’t until I went to prison that I realized what I was missing

Now I'm a bookworm, and I'm helping to teach my kids

My mid-life adventures in the sometimes great, often gross, always weird world of online dating

"One day my phone pinged with a photo—something beige and gnarled, some kind of root vegetable? Nope. It was a penis."

When I moved to a retirement home in my 80s, 
I found true love

"I felt butterflies that hadn’t been there in 60 years"