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Wine, Women & Well-Being

Here in Calgary I wasn’t sure where to land. I wasn’t a foreigner to the country, and my kids were beyond baby-group age, yet I was longing to be a part of the women’s groups that I’d become accustomed to. There were women’s brunches, and markets that I attended and I started making friends that way. But I still wanted community, and new people arriving in Calgary were starting to message me about where the ‘women’s group’ was. If you build it, they will come. I thought to myself…

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The French Connection

I'm certainly not French, but I have humbly and awkwardly earned that French passport that will eventually come my way (...French paperwork can NOT be rushed!). So, there I was in October, at the wine festival in Calgary, only one glass in at this point, and I walk up to a booth and start chatting. Turns out they are a boutique, family-run winery from France. “Wait, what? Where in France?”…

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