I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.