I’m on holidays! and more

Hi all my readers, I’m away for four weeks, and even though my columns are appearing in the paper, I’m not going to be posting them till I get back mid December. Meanwhile you can find them on line at The Australian Cheers Ruth

    

WHILE the body is going to decline with age and our joints become worse for wear, the brain is not geared towards ageing, according to American Michael Gelb, world leader in accelerated learning, speaking at the annual Mind and Its Potential conference in Sydney last month. Gelb, who has had his [...]

    

AN acquaintance recently discovered her long-time partner had gone back to smoking and she left him. For many people, that would seem extreme, given seven good years together. But for her it was part of an unspoken system in relationships that I have dubbed EDB: emotional deal breakers. As with [...]

    

When it comes to kinky sex, why do we always think we’ve invented the wheel? AMONG my peers there was much sadness over the recent death of Sylvia Kristel, star of the 1974 erotic film Emmanuelle — a film we grew up with, and which became so popular that it made soft-core erotic cinema [...]

    

IN the wake of the global economic downturn, many people I know are having to learn to cope with becoming redundant in their 40s, 50s or 60s. And it’s not an easy task. Many of my friends are journalists who have taken payouts and left not only their job but their identity at a stage in life when [...]