Memoir

My neighbours and I tore down our fence and built a shared outdoor kitchen

This is a story of bad fences making better neighbours

I was the top-ranked female MMA fighter in Ontario. Here’s why I walked away from the sport at 22

After a cluster of mysterious white dots showed up on my brain scan, doctors urged me to retire

I threw my grandmother an assisted suicide party

It changed the way I think about dying

I adopted a stateless child, but I’m not allowed to bring her home

I’ve had to figure out how to be a long-distance parent

“I grew up black in an all-white family”

Five tear-jerking stories of DNA kit reunions

I survived a Kensington Market rooming house

It was the worst place I ever lived. And Toronto needs a lot more like it

After 13 tenants, 12 years of marriage, countless raccoons, four children, two mortgages and one $500,000 reno, my house is finally my family’s dream home

I found it while walking the dog one spring night in 2010

How I survived a psychotic break

I heard voices, hallucinated and convinced myself the Illuminati were sending me messages

Six years ago, she was living in a shelter. Now she’s one of the city’s youngest CEOs

A memoir about domestic violence and never giving up

I went to college when I was 11

I wanted to write software, and computer camp just wasn’t cutting it

I remarried my ex on his deathbed

“Till death do you part” packs quite an emotional wallop when the groom has terminal cancer

The good news was that I was alive. The bad news: I’d never walk again

The case that defied doctors

The 5 most popular Toronto Life memoirs of 2018

Including the woman whose art poisoned her and the Orthodox Jew who became a gender-reassignment surgeon

For years, I ignored my panic attacks and convinced myself I was fine

It took a 2 a.m. trip the ER to realize I wasn’t

The truth about tech, from an insider who got out

A cautionary tale about big money, long hours and a cultish devotion to tequila shots and team spirit