Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.