I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.

Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster?

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.