Many women tell me something quite astonishing: when they speak French, they feel like a different person. Braver. Freer. More willing to take up space. It’s not the vocabulary…

With a perspective on life that comes from time and experience, one of the things that I now truly believe is that luck and serendipity have had a far greater role in how my life…

We used to read 300-page novels and fall asleep to the shipping forecast. Now we’re told that our attention spans are shrinking, that we can’t handle more than a ten-second reel on our phones. And yet my own phone cheerfully reports two to four hours of screen time a day…

Ladies Who Lift: That’s the inspired name of the group of newbie weight-lifters at my local gym. And I’m the one who knows least of all about the topic. Which, frankly, is fantastic. It’s a chance to learn a whole new vocabulary, meet people whose paths I might never have crossed, and find out…

Apparently, we’re more afraid of public speaking than we are of death. It’s absurd when you think about it – but fear has never been rational. It slips under the door, whispering warnings that keep us small. Whatever our age or achievements, it still has the power to press pause on our potential…