258: Invisible

One of the best things about getting older (for me at least) is that people don’t pay any attention to you in the street. I remember spending a lot of my teens, twenties and some of my thirties actively avoiding situations where I may feel threatened by men. Now, I’ve never been sexually assaulted, abused […]

257: How To Bag Yourself A Man

Back in the days before women generally had better choices other than to get married, cook and raise children, ending up a spinster was a fate worse than death unless you had rich parents who could support you in life and beyond. And there were plenty of ways to bag yourself a man if being […]

256: Chocolate

I think I would have always settled for the latter if I had known there was a choice, and in recent years, I have done so more, at the expense of my waistline. That said, relationships were never a sure sign of a trim figure, since one gets too comfortable too quickly and stops trying […]