I have a funny practice that I started last year on January 1st, 2016 that I call Trashercise. I used to be cranky about the trash in the neighbourhood around my new apartment. I used to live up the hill in Upper Westmount, before I fell from grace and sold my home. In Upper Westmount there is no trash because it's a clean fancy neighbourhood. When I moved down the hill to Lower Westmount, it is what we call the Flats or Lower Westmount. There are commercial stores, restaurants, our Super Hospital nearby, subway stations etc... fairly high density, lots...

Today is December 17th, it's the 40th Anniversary of my Skating Accident. The day my precious skating was taken away from me. I was 18. I should have won Canadians that year. I was at the very top of my game. I was both incredibly artistic as well as technically brilliant. Skating was my favourite thing in the whole world, I lived it, I breathed it, I lived for skating. Six days a week, eight hours a day. Up at 4:30 am, squeezing in my schooling around a jam-packed skating, training, dance & choreography day. I loved it. It was the...

Tonight I thought I'd make an early supper, I had made a beautiful paelle of sorghum grains, with veggies & beans, a salmon pattie that was calling my name, a few fresh fruits in the fridge, salad and a nice bottle of red wine. I poured myself a glass of red wine, and savoured my supper, and then wondering if I'd actually made great choices health wise. So often we reach for comfort food, and honestly I had had a very challenging week, very busy with the fashion side of my business, an awfully sore neck from trying to be...

  I don't know how many times people have asked me what the secret is of my agelessness. I have been in the business of fashion for 36 years already, so when I pop by to research fabrics for my Fashion Collections or see someone in the trade, we ALL go back a long time." Cyd! How do you do it ?? YOU do not change, you stay as youthful and lovely looking as you did when I first met you ?? "  There is no question that I started off with great genes, an athletic background, I know how...