Why turning fifty is liberating Let me start with a disclaimer. I’m 50 but don’t think I’m fab. But that’s not to say I’m not to some people. So what exactly, makes someone fabulous? Usually, it’s accompanied by ‘You can’t be that old!’. Or ‘Well done! You look much younger!’ …

Knowing you need to find yourself is a strength — I haven’t written in ages. Proper writing, that is. Because of financial difficulties, I concentrated on trying to get a job where I could earn money, and that would get me out of financial burdens. And I started to die. Just a little, day by day. At first, you don’t…

I’ve done my bit, what are you doing? — I remember looking at someone who was 50, and in my incredible world-weary experience attained at the age of 20, I thought ‘shit, that’s old.’ And here I am. 50, and increasingly pissed off with the young ‘uns (of an average age of 35, and who I could probably outrun…

I always thought that being 50 was really really old. I mean, grannies were in their 50s weren’t they? …

Why it’s so easy to blame others In just 0.63 seconds, Google came up with 184,000,000 hits on ‘Easy to blame others’. …

Why I’m sick and tired of hearing about side hustles — ‘Hustle — to make someone move quickly by pushing or pulling them along’ explains the Cambridge English Dictionary. Merriam Webster (since 1828) describes ‘hustle’ as ‘to crowd or push roughly’, ‘ to convey forcibly or hurriedly’; ‘to urge forward precipitately’, ‘to sell or promote energetically and aggressively’. The feeling you…

This week was a right downer. I couldn’t bring myself to read Medium, or make any sense of the loving and uplifting quotes I receive daily on a repurposed kindle, a labour of love from my partner. Not even that. …