Ill-gotten gains

 

It’s out earliest encounters with money that set the scene for our financial foibles

 

When I was three years old, my family spent a holiday at a guest farm outside Cape Town. While [...]

The view from the hill

 

When my grandmother was in her fifties she described herself as an old woman. My mother, at the same age, talked of soon being ‘over the hill’. Physiologically, I’m no more youthful than my mother and grandmother [...]

Living with friends

Everything in life has a season, but if you are a single woman ‘of a certain age’ it’s best not to sit around waiting for the solo season to end. Like a comet on a vast elliptical orbit, this cycle can be so protracted [...]

Forever young

It’s a sad thing about the human condition that we often long to be someone other than who we currently are. At 15 we want to be 20; at 40 we want to be 30, and at 50 we’d give anything to have [...]