What an inspiration! Watch this clip of Tao Porchon-Lynch, the oldest yoga instructor according to Guinness World Records. Porchon-Lynch has been teaching for more than sixty years and does not plan on hanging up her mat anytime soon. She says, “I am going to teach yoga until I can’t breath anymore.” Adding, “I love yoga, it brightens my day and makes everybody smile.”

If you are a fan of Zoomer Radio, AM740  and happen to be in the GTA tomorrow, please come out and support your favourite radio station. ZoomerMedia will be taking part in a hearing Tuesday, May 15 before the CRTC for the last FM radio frequency serving Toronto. CONTINUE READING…

In 2012, the beloved Canadian poet is set to hit the road again for a tour that includes 10 Canadian stops. The Old Ideas World Tour 2012 is named for his January album release that, upon reaching number one on music charts world wide, stands as the highest ranked of his career. Here’s your chance to win tickets to one of his Canadian dates!

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When a specimen is chosen as Perennial Plant  of the year, you know it’ll be a great addition to your backyard oasis – or for an oasis in the making. The PC Connoisseur Collection Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ features bright silvery-green foliage three seasons and sprouts clusters of delicate brilliant-blue flowers in spring. This hardy perennial thrives in the shade, in the ground or in containers, throughout a wide range of climate conditions, plus it’s relatively pest- and disease-resistant. The rough leaf texture makes it less palatable to browsing deer. In a word – perfect! $15, at selected President’s Choice grocery stores and garden centres. CONTINUE READING…

In her first novel, Zoomer’s Deputy editor Kim Izzo revisits the concept of marrying well as defined by chick lit’s founding scribe

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman over 40 must be in want of a husband. Suffice to say that the previous sentence is not an accurate reprinting of Jane Austen’s line from Pride and Prejudice. Indeed, it would not even be a consideration that a woman who lived past 40 in the early 19th century would have any chance of matrimony. In Austen’s era a so-called spinster was expected to spend her days doing needlepoint and meddling in the love lives of her nieces and nephews. Fast forward 200 years to our culture where being single after 40 or 50 or 60 doesn’t mean we have to abandon hope of finding romance; it just means we haven’t met the right man. We are still quite capable of finding our own Mr. Darcy. And I venture to guess that as mature women we are also hoping our real Darcy is as financially secure as the fictional one. CONTINUE READING…

From indulgent body creams to elegant compacts, pamper mom (or yourself) with the little luxuries on our gift guide.

-Athena McKenzie