I've been wondering, How are we to understand the Canadian fascination with all things stepfamily-related? From their ground-breaking research to their break-out artists like Karen Piovaty (featured below on my blog) to their insatiable media interest in all step-topics, you have to wonder, Is it something in the water? I don't know. But it's working for this woman with stepchildren: Canada has been very, very good to me. A review of Stepmonster recently ran in 18 Canadian newspapers on the same day, and just a while later, the CBC did a second interview with me, this one for their radio show, Definitely Not the Opera, for which the theme was "An Inside Look at Outsiders."

The CBC radio show features stories of a number of people talking about their lives and experiences as outsiders. Taking a very different approach to the stepmothering topic — DNTO set my first-person story to music. I think it's a story many women with stepkids can relate to, so here's the link for those who want to check it out (my story is about 3/4 of the way through the program, but all the stories are pretty interesting so you might want to listen to the whole thing...)
http://podcast.com/show/2688/