If you were worth billions in your midlife and had more dosh than you could ever spend for the rest of your life – bearing in mind that life expectancy is 72.6 (UN global estimate) – would you expect your workers to use bags and bottles to perform bodily functions in so your company could …
March 2021
Is 35 old enough to be suffering from a midlife crisis? Not Me, Chrissy Teigen
At the age of 35, I was able to pull occasional strands of my grey hairs out. They were so few and far between. The idea of increasing my hair dressing bills by adding colour treatment was a far away notion. In a similar vein, the concept of a ‘midlife crisis’, in my 30s, was …
The experience of pandemic fear in midlife
A year today, I started living (almost) 24/7 within the confines of my home, like you and others (apart from Dominic Cummings). What stands out for me is witnessing and feeling something that was invisible – the virus- take hold in an almost tangible way and translating all that into fear. It was a new …
Happy Mother’s Day
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” Agatha Christie