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Herstory Issue!
Written by Carla Atherton   
Our Herstory Issue Has Arrived!


Features
What's Her Story? - A Collection of Tales from Cahoots Readers Compiled by Sarah Stefanson
Surprise Feature due out mid-June (Carla's still working on it!)


Columns
Femme Vitale - The Issues We Store In Our Tissues
by Charmian Christie
Inspired at Work - Generation Y: Trailblazers or Slackers?
by Christine Hart
Lesley's Letters - A Mom's Story by Lesley Crewe
Sense and Sensuality - The Positive Side of the Sex Trade
by Sarah Stefanson
NEW Column! XY - Planet Crazy by Gord Sellar


Articles
Into the Wilds by Gabriel Constans
A Village Raising a Child by Chynna Laird


Non-Fiction
Ashes and Butterfly Wings by Lisa Timpf
Beyond the Ivy by J. Anderson Coats
How I Became an Exotic Dancer by Sheila Hageman
I Lash by Lisa Denis


Fiction
Disappearing Act by Leslie Vryenhoek
Distance by Kate Sheckler


Poetry
The Meaning of Life and Woman by Lisa Zaran
Cathy Arrives Home and In Love by Donna Campbell
Female Art by Katherine Layton
Femininity Takes a Holiday, Lost at Sea and Wishing by Lynn Tait
Tools by Carol L. MacKay
Written in Sand, Written in Stone by Margaret Fieland
After the Affair by Arlene Ang
Women Who Write by Laila Haidarali
Maternity Leave by Lorena Covington
 

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  • I was standing in the potato chip aisle the other evening and was disappointed to discover that our favourite flavour had been discontinued. Shock, dismay, mourning. "Story of our lives!" I declared, without irony.

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Columns!

 
Femme Vitale (Charmian Christie) takes you on the path toward better health
Imperfect Measurements (Ann Douglas) contains a wealth of fascinating facts and figures
Inspired at Work (Christine Hart) - well, can one be inspired at work? We think so!
It's Not Rocket Science (Michele Rowe) demolishes ignorance with a stern tongue-lashing
Lesley's Letters (Lesley Crewe) - there's nothing better or more comforting than coffee with Lesley
Off-the-Cuff (Char Thompson) - get ready for a wild ride through quick wit and humour about all aspects of life
Sense and Sensuality (Sarah Stefanson) talking sense about sensuality
Sandwich Generation
(Gisele Grignon)
Stay tuned for XY (Gord Sellar) set to debut in 2008!

We, at Cahoots, bid a fond farewell to Anne Camozzi and Leanna Braid and thank them for all their insight, talent, and dedication to our magazine. Read archived installments of their environmental column Earth Wisdom.
 

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Editor's Note

  • Herstory. What's her story? What's yours? What's mine? This issue we have welcomed readers/writers/contributors to tell us their stories, lend us a slice of their perspectives, of their particular experiences in their particular lives. My life is filled with people, work, things to do, work, and people. In short, it's nuts some days. I do a lot in my own life and for other people. I won't be modest there. And I like to do it. I like my work. I like my friends and family. Without them, what the hell is there? But sometimes I wonder if those around me truly understand what my life is like every day, how much it takes to hold up my piece of the world. I don't want to be pitied or helped more -- no! But I want the people in my life to have some idea about how very hard I work so the next time someone wants to complain about me taking 3 months to review their submission or my not being available for coffee when they stop by they might understand, might say, hey, how are you holding up, woman?! And that means I need to speak up. I need to share my story.

    I think a lot of women feel this way. Living in this insane culture full of kids' soccer games and rising housing costs and commercialism and television and double-duty and household responsibilities and work (let's not forget we might want to shower or wipe our own arses every once in a while!) is a lot of work. I think a lot of women want to scream, hellooo, what about me? And because we are so wrapped up in keeping up with our own lives, we can become disconnected from each other. We can feel isolated, underappreciated, misunderstood. A lot of women get to the end of the day wondering who the hell cut the brakes on the runaway train they call their lives!

    My story is long and crazy, but it's a good one. It's adventurous and fast-paced, but never boring, and certainly not tragic! I think that it's not our desire as individual women to bitch and complain about how hard we have it or even to want it any other way, but to be acknowledged for what we do and have someone say, how are you holding up? Because nowadays women are doing a lot.

    My solution? I'm moving into the country. My family and I are slicing out a little piece of heaven where we can unplug from the buzz of civilization, where we can go on our own private adventure. Maybe I'll become some crazed herb lady (some might have labelled a witch in another day and age) who makes her own lotions and medicinal remedies and doesn't use a microwave (OK, I already do this!). My story will end set on this little piece of land with an afterword that says: she did a lot, but loved every minute of it -- sometimes slow and sometimes wicked-fast, it was a hell of a ride!  or more simply: she wouldn't have had it any other way.

    So, dig into the stories presented in our Herstory issue. Find out more about your fellow women, their stories, and how they're holding up. Because isn't that all we want here, to be heard, to be able to tell our stories and have someone simply say, I hear you, woman. I hear you loud and clear.

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