MEET CARA

Hello, I'm Cara.

A wife, a mother, a former pharmacist, a businesswoman, an enthusiastic traveller and a woman who is discovering that growing older doesn't necessarily mean growing wiser.

Sometimes it just means having better stories.

Somewhere between raising two teenage boys, marriage, work, friendships, travel and the occasional existential crisis in front of the bathroom mirror, I started wondering about the things we women don't always say out loud.

Are we happy, or just incredibly good at keeping everything together? When did getting dressed for dinner become more exciting than the dinner itself? And why does nobody warn you that midlife can feel like puberty, only with a mortgage and significantly more responsibilities?

I don't have all the answers. In fact, the older I get, the more questions I seem to have.

But I do love a good conversation, a beautiful place, a long lunch, a little humour and the kind of honesty that makes another woman say, "Oh thank God, I thought it was just me."

That's what The Cara Edit is about.

A collection of stories, observations and thoughts on life as I'm living it.

Welcome. I'm glad you're here.