Contents – Dropped Threads Marjorie Anderson — Foreword Joan Barfoot — Starch, Salt, Chocolate, Wine Lorna Crozier — What Stays in the Family Isabel Huggan — Notes on a Piece for Carol Anne Hart — Lettuce Turnip and Pea Bonnie Burnard — Casseroles Susan Lightstone — Hope for the Best (Expect the Worst) Marni Jackson — Tuck Me In: Redefining Attachment Between Mothers and Sons Joan Clark — How Do I Look? Claudio Casper — Victory Janet E. Bradley — Middle-Aged Musings on Retirement Betty Jane Wylie — The Imaginary Woman Rosalie Benoit Weaver — Life's Curves June Callwood — Old Age Jacqueline McLeod Rogers — Grace After Pressure Margaret Atwood — If You Can't Say Something Nice, Don't Say Anything At All Charlotte Gray —Gilding the Dark Shades Lily Redmond — Mrs. Jones Isla James — Edited Version Deborah Schnitzer — Just a Part Miriam Toews — A Father's Faith Martha Brooks — One Woman's Experience with the Ecstatic Sharon Butala — Seeing Margaret Shaw-Mackinnon — Birth, Death and the Eleusinian Mysteries Eleanor Wachtel — Speechless Helen Fogwill Porter — Juliet Renate Schulz — Hidden in the Hand Katherine Govier — Wild Roses Carol Hussa Harvey and Katherine C.H. Gardiner — Reflections from Cyberspace Sandy Frances Duncan — I Have Blinds Now Katherine Martens — The Joys of Belly Dancing The Honourable Sharon Carstairs — Politics: Is It a Woman's Game? Blanche Howard — The Anger of Young Men Anne Giardini — Still Life with Power Nina Lee Colwill — The Worth of Women's Work Carol Shields — Afterword .