I am often asked, “how bendy”, I am in my midlife when I tell people that I enjoy Yoga. I am old enough to remember those salacious jokes about being ‘bendy’ from watching programmes like Friends. So tune off now if you are looking for double entendres in this post. In my earlier years I …
Celebrating the Older Woman on International Women’s Day
I am quite vocal in life. Being assertive is an important trait to me. But I cannot singlehandedly fight the very subtle airbrushing of the older woman in society. As I age I notice that the spaces where I was once listened to and enthusiastically sought out are gradually receding. No, this isn’t my imagination. …