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Trish Bentley
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Women Who Are Inspiring Us With Their Incredible Careers
As an increasing number of strong and savvy women break through the dreaded glass ceiling thanks to their careers in technology,...



Trish Bentley
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Note From Trish: Staying Positive and Living in the Now
Have you ever looked at a dog sleeping, or just strolling along the street without a care in the world, and wanted to switch spots for a...



Trish Bentley
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Food: Kale is My Boyfriend
Kale is my boyfriend. It’s like that muscle-head guy in a tank top who isn’t my type at all because he works out too much and doesn’t...



Trish Bentley
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Food: Oscar Party Eats
Ahhh the Oscars. My favourite awards show of the year. You know how I like to celebrate this wonderful night in style? Fry. Fry, fry,...


Trish Bentley
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The Aging Process: Caught Between Holding onto the Past and Preparing for the Future
Lines, lines on my forehead. Where did you come from? Be manifest solely as excess grey or an aversion to turn in after 11 o’clock. That,...

Trish Bentley
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Come On People, Let’s Read More
To a New Year and Newer Literary Adventures Being an avid reader, whose ever-growing appetite for literature doesn’t seem to be waning...

Trish Bentley
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Note From Trish: The Meaning of Christmas
Suddenly this year every time a commercial for anything toy-related comes on, I hear: “I want that. I want that from Santa!” My son is...

Trish Bentley
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Note from Trish: Marriage Trumps Wedding
One day, when I was planning my wedding, a friend in the office said, “You will see one day that the wedding means nothing compared to...


Trish Bentley
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Note from Trish: It’s Never Too Late
When Ann sent me her draft for the piece It Ain’t Over ‘Till You’re Dead I got that wonderful feeling of knowing that I’m not alone. It’s...


Trish Bentley
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Note From Trish: It’s a Long Life
So this past week my family and I went to Palm Springs to visit my dad and his wife who currently spend the winters there. We spent...


Trish Bentley
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Parenthood: It’s About What Happens, Not What I Think About What Happens
When my son was 18 months old my babysitter breezed into my home office revelling at the fact that she had walked him all the way to a...


Trish Bentley
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Author Interview: I CAN Believe in Myself – Win copies of the book
Some kids are just born confident. They exude that air of “I can do anything” and yes, they go on to do many things. But there are also...


Trish Bentley
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Female Artists We Love
Since the song Breathe Me came out 10 years ago, I’ve been hooked on a quirky blonde Aussie named Sia. She was made famous in recent...


Trish Bentley
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How Do People Stay Married for Fifty Years?
I often see an older couple walking hand in hand up and down the strip near my house. They saunter slowly next to one another,...


Trish Bentley
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Parenting: My Kids Learned to Fend for Themselves While I Cleaned the Bathroom
I squeezed my hands into yellow rubber gloves and headed for the toilet. Glamorous. After leaving this gruesome chore for far too many...


Trish Bentley
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Extraordinary Women
I come out of my doctor’s office after having been told that “I need to have babies now if I want them (…) that if I wait any longer, it...


Trish Bentley
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Nannies Living Abroad: A Better Life?
What is a better life? I have asked myself this several times since I interviewed Jhaireen, a Filipino nanny living and working in...


Trish Bentley
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Marriage Advice From a 91 Year Old Woman
Last weekend a group of ladies went to Prince Edward County to celebrate one of our dear friend’s upcoming wedding. It was a weekend away...


Trish Bentley
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Melanoma: The Young Person’s Cancer
Please see video and diagram below to check your moles. When I was twenty-one years old, I had a creepy looking mole that everyone kept...


Trish Bentley
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Fathers Love Differently
When I first really got to know my dad I was sixteen. My mom had died in August, my brother was starting University out East in...
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