I'm not in the habit of doing nude photo shoots. Especially at "my age." When my mompreneur friend Karyn Climans, helmet safety advocate and owner of Tail Wags, invited me to take it all off in support of Mothers Against Naked Riding, I agreed.

I'm...

Buck and Upton warned us. They're the two U.S. scientists who told the U.S. government early this year that there might be a problem with some migratory fish. Possible culprits: your salmon and tuna.

How correct were they? How will history's largest accidental deposit of radiation in the...

After school, I swung the car door open, and plopped myself in the passenger seat of my mom's car, trying to stuff my 50-pound backpack down by my feet.

"Get ready, Julia," my mom said. "Your life is about to get pretty crazy."

That's when I learned that...

Mental illness is not a choice, like many other illnesses it's something that you cannot prevent yourself from getting. I am not implying that mental illness is contagious because it absolutely is not but there is nothing you can do prevent the initial onset of symptoms and potential eventual diagnosis....

I guess one could say I'm spread a little thin these days. Luckily, that's the way I like it. I'm a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and am presently working on the role of Hamlet in a production from American choreographer Kevin O'Day.

This...

Do you have an iPhone? I do. And guess what? The more I use it, the more I have less use for many of the other things I own.

I have less use for my digital camera, my video camera, my portable DVD player, my MP3 player, my digital...