Flourishing in our fifties!

‘If I gave up work, what would I do?’

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Louise Robertson started to wonder if there was something more to life. And she found it in the most remarkable place

“Breaking up is never easy, I know…” Good old Abba – always ready with an apposite lyric, though in this case I suppose it should be “Letting go is never easy” as I say farewell to the garden I have m

Ivy Ngeow, 55, lives with her husband and their two children, aged 18 and 14. Gazing at all the books on the shelves, I fantasised about one day being talented enough to write one. It was 1978 and, ag

When did you last call someone a spinster? Chances are that the label, and all its tragic connotations, has vanished from your vocab. Thankfully, we’ve moved past the idea that unmarried women are con