Weekdays:   I am a lawyer with the firm Reynolds O'Brien LLP in Belleville, Ontario.  My main areas of practice are matrimonial law, wills & estates and small business law. Recently, I have added collaborative family law to the mix and belong to  the Quinte Collaborative Law Association.

Weekends:  I am also a writer.  From 1990 to  2006, I wrote the Back Page column  in Canadian Lawyer magazine.  From 2004 to 2007, I debated social conservative Michael Coren bi-weekly in The Western Standard.  Since October, 2007 I have had a fortnightly column in The National Post.  As well, I have contributed irregularly to a variety of other newspapers and magazines including  The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, The Vancouver Sun, Fraser Forum and The Freeman.  My subjects are items of current interest, including recent court decisions.   The political philosophy expressed in my writing is called "libertarian" or "classical liberal".

I am also on the Board of Directors of Civitas, and on the advisory board of the Canadian Constitution Foundation.

Personal:  I live in a small village in eastern Ontario with my husband and dog. 

This web site contains the full text of most of my past columns and articles, as well as transcripts of several speeches and presentations.  New items are added as time permits.