Choose your hard

On urgency, impulsivity, and the joy of unexpected recklessness

It’s not the big birthdays ending with 0 that throw us – it’s the 365 days before them, says Clare Bowie. Here, she reflects on life ‘on the cusp’

For all the strides we’ve made in our careers, Red ’s survey of over 2,000 readers reveals that women are still facing very real obstacles in the workplace. So, what’s the real picture? And who can help us rewrite the story?

It’s a funny old world

Being fearless in midlife is hard, because to be fearless we might have to change or challenge parts of our identity that we have leaned on for years: things we were taught about ourselves as a child,

RIDICULOUS that after all this time it should be a shock. What had she expected? That he would appear one day on her doorstep with that oh-so-familiar crooked grin to reclaim her? To tell her that he’