It’s happened again – another article about how postmenopausal women are really only forty. Have I missed something? No. I haven’t…. Read more

Almost there.  Within 48 hours (all going well) I will be at Mumbai airport, boarding the two hour Kingfisher flight… Read more

It’s okay to be afraid of facing the death of your relative or friend. But the gift of being prepared… Read more

I was very heartened to read yesterday’s Daily Telegraph’s piece, Emergency staff to be told if you want to live or die…. Read more

When I admitted to my boater neighbour in the marina where I was going last week he exploded with amused… Read more

Well done Colin Firth for winning the Oscar last night for his performance as George VI (Bertie) in the wonderful… Read more

49 year-old Clare Dubois is the courageous, passionate and dedicated founder of TreeSisters. Clare acknowledges that her whole life has… Read more

Dr Matt Welsh is an American clinical psychologist providing psychotherapy to war veterans experiencing PTSD, substance abuse, anxiety and depression at… Read more

More than a few people have been telling me that it feels as if they are dragging themselves through their… Read more

It’s not easy to know how to open up conversations with someone who is dying There is often awkwardness, embarrassment… Read more

A menopausal friend called me this week to talk through something that had upset her. Well, ‘talk through’ isn’t quite… Read more

I love the latest sex discrimination tale concerning the menopausal Mary Bassi who at the age of 56 was sacked as… Read more

Yesterday I spent an inspiring day at the Festival for Death and Dying at the Connect Centre, Wells. It was wonderful… Read more

Woman Commits Suicide to Avoid Old Age, was a front page Sunday Times headline.  Immediately I imagined some poor, pathetic, lonely old… Read more

For the past few days I have had a beautiful mooring under the dappled shade of a gorgeous plane tree,… Read more

I’ve been giving considerable thought to what Patrick Shervington from Women’s Health Concern said to me about men and the… Read more

According to Governmental, main-stream media and even some religious party-lines, we are ‘at war’ not just with Covid-19, but with… Read more