World Water Day is March 22 -- the perfect time for us westerners to raise our chilled, thirst-quenching glass of it (or our refreshing cup of tea) to the almost one billion people around the world without access to clean drinking water.

One minute, Dr. Russell Moon, 58, was a super-fit cyclist with a thriving dental practice in Santa Monica, Calif. The next, he was paralyzed from the shoulders down. A driver making a left turn didn't see him, and knocked Dr. Moon off his mountain bike.

"As soon as I hit...

Here are a few things I've learned since my book Plus One: A Year in the Life of a Hollywood Nobody was published: To be a writer, you need a trust fund, a rich spouse or another source of income if you want to keep a roof over your head;...

As my daughter, husband and I stepped off the plane at the tiny Savusavu airport in Fiji, where we'd come to visit my son and his family, the first thing I saw was a couple of cows tethered to a post, grazing placidly. I thought there probably won't be much...

If Oscar Wilde was right and all women become like their mothers, you can forgive me for feeling a little anxious after my parents' last trip to Los Angeles, where my sister and I live.

Not that they are losing their marbles. Far from it, but they have been known...

As someone who has received health care on both sides of the Atlantic, I feel compelled to weigh in on this all-important subject.

There's something wonderful about being able to go to a doctor or hospital in the UK, knowing you don't have to fill in multiple forms and...

If Oscar Wilde was right and all women become like their mothers, you can forgive me for feeling a little anxious after my parents' last trip to Los Angeles, where my sister and I live.

Not that they are losing their marbles. Far from it, but they have been known...

The last time I moaned about my eyebrows being too thin and not long enough, a man friend told me to think myself lucky that's the only thing I have that's too thin and not long enough.

Fair point, well made. But what's a gal gotta do to get a...

In my dreams, I am smiling at the cameras in the season finale of Dancing With The Stars, waving at the adoring crowds with one hand and holding the mirror ball trophy in the other, with confetti raining all around.

In reality, I only dance after a couple of...

I'm calling it our Plan B, but it's really my Plan A. I want to keep renting our small yet lovely apartment in Los Angeles and build a fabulous house in Fiji where my son lives. So I can watch my baby grand daughter grow up in the flesh without...

While my heart isn't bleeding for the banks that just had their credit ratings lowered, I am concerned about the knock-on effect it might have on the rest of us.

A lady at my bank told me recently that the majority of their customers have less than $2,000 in their...

Hands up those who haven't written a will or updated your old one to reflect a new spouse or live-in partner? Well, I'm here to tell you that you may, erm, live to regret it, especially if you have property or children. And by property, I mean intellectual property as...

I've just returned from an unforgettable family vacation in Fiji with my sister, my woman child and my sister's six-year-old daughter. There is so much to love about this place but for us, a trip aboard the Tui Tai made for the adventure of a lifetime. It's a cruise...

My father, 82-year-old Royston Fordham with dodgy knees, diabetes and a pacemaker, is flying from England to California this coming weekend. Then he will be going to concerts in Santa Barbara, San Juan Capistrano, Washington DC, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

His other daughter, singer/songwriter Julia Fordham, is...

Apart from the facts, universally acknowledged, that George Clooney prefers his girlfriends half my age, four sizes smaller than me, and I'm happily married to someone else, I am the perfect woman for him.

Why don't his love interests believe him when he says he won't get married again and...

I may have been a little hasty 10 years ago by stating I would stop coloring my hair when I became a grandmother. That time has now come, but my colorist will still be seeing me once a month. I also need to tell my sister I'm moving the goalposts...