I'm hurtling towards my 42nd birthday.
It's not even around the corner, it's standing right in front of me with a mean look on it's face and it's punching one fist into the palm of it's other hand. It looks like trouble, it looks like it means trouble and...

Recently I was asked to take part in a documentary about online dating. Not that I am an expert in the field of online dating, but the shows researcher had read some of my previous blogs and had decided that I was experienced enough within the realm of dysfunctional relationships...

They say that sex is a great leveller, that when we're naked, vulnerable and lying prone on the bed, it doesn't matter who, what or where we are. We are all the same. All of us wonder what on earth got us here? Should we still be laying here? And...

This week a friend of mine will walk away from his rapidly growing clothing line. He will switch off his iPhone, turn off his Mac, and drop out from Facebook, Twitter and every other social media.

He will give up the ambition that has made his fashion business start to...

Every week it seems that we are bombarded with information in the media regarding how to tell if we are in our prime, if we have reached our peak or if we are just about to go hurtling over the hill in a cardboard box with four wheels attached but...

I rarely watch television. The box in the corner of the room or the flat screen on the wall hold little temptation for me. If anything, they scare me. I know I'm susceptible to letting my mind wander. I can be easily distracted and I can sometimes let myself get...

There is a postcard, fridge magnet, T- shirt, coffee cup and Facebook / Twitter update that is so over used and such a cliché that every time I read it or see it, it makes me exhale like a serial killer who's just remembered he has left his last victim...

St Valentine's, it's that time of year when Christmas seems like a lifetime ago and summer seems like a lifetime away. February is always a HARD month to cope with.

It's like the drunken lull when you're in a taxi on the way home after a really good night...

I'm not married, I'm not in a civil partnership and as far as I'm aware there is no one even on the verge of making a proposal, getting down on one knee or even sending a postcard with some offer of a mutually beneficial arrangement. My days of romance, wine,...

Apparently, faking it is good for you . . . . . .

A recent study (please don't nail me down to facts and figures, I've already forgotten them) shows that everyone fakes some form of behavior every day, whether it be a smile, a cheery 'hello',...

I understand being shy as a concept, if you're under the age of seven, but as a lifestyle choice, I think it's no longer an option. I don't think in 2013 it's even possible to suffer from shyness.

Surely, the glut of TV talent shows, reality TV and the...

I have always liked Jodie Foster but I have no idea what kind of personality she is in private as she's been in the public eye since the age of three. God knows how she's ever managed to separate her public persona from her private life, so when I watched...

"Keep a diary and someday it'll keep you."

I have never really understood the meaning of the quote attributed to Mae West. Did she mean that if you religiously write down everything that has happened to you, what you have felt and every dirty little secret that...

New Year is traditionally the time when we say goodbye to the old, hello to the new and make the decisions and resolutions we aim to keep for the next twelve months.

Gym memberships are purchased, diets are started, alcohol is given up and new leaves are turned over. New...

Tis the season to be single, fa la la la la, la la la la.

I'm trying to get jolly, I'm trying to get in the Christmas spirit, I've decked the halls and I'm just about a mood swing away from decking Santa.

Christmas is the time when we sprinkle...

I had breakfast with my dad this morning.

So what? You may think. It's hardly the most auspicious start to a piece of writing, but if I tell you I didn't speak to him for 15 years, then I did and we went some way to fixing the father /...

I like to think of myself as someone who's focused, determined, single minded and sure of what they want. I don't need to be asked twice what I want for lunch, what I want in life and what I want in the bedroom.

I've never really been one to...

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm".

I read this quote the other day and immediately thought it was hilarious. Then I thought about it again and pondered if it was empowering and showed a tenacity of spirit, and finally I said it out loud...

There is nothing quite as exciting as the race to become President of the United States or "King of the World" as is its proper title. It makes the UK election look like a regional heat in a beauty contest where only two contestants showed up, but they forgot all...

Halloween crept up on me like a stalker in a slasher movie. Sure enough I'd seen the pumpkins in the supermarket and I'd bought a couple of extra packs of Haribo Tangfastics but I wasn't even thinking of sharing my candy. Haribo is part of my staple diet and I'm...