Jealousy and envy are a bit like Kendall and Kylie Jenner: they look so similar (to the uninitiated) that it's easy to get them confused; they're everywhere (often cropping up when you least expect it); and they are perceived by many as a bad influence. I've written about jealousy many times for this blog and... Continue Reading →
I know that you shouldn't regret anything in life. We all make mistakes from time to time, but then we learn from them which is how we grow emotionally. If that one awful thing hadn't happened, it wouldn't have led to those other much better things. If it hadn't been for some of those decisions... Continue Reading →
When you're a kid, you can't wait to get older. Someone asks your age and you always answer in a very precise way, because you think that 7 sounds so much younger than 7-and-three-quarters. As a teenager, you want to be old enough to have sex, to drive, smoke and drink. Even in your early... Continue Reading →
I've written about taking a short course to learn something new on this blog but it feels strange that, other than that, I've not really tackled the topic of lifelong learning before. After all, I spent 17 of the the first 22 years of my life in full-time education and, since then, I've spent many... Continue Reading →
As my age is now equal to the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, I decided that 2017 needed a new blog series on Rarely Wears Lipstick. One that covers some of the weird and wonderful things I've learned in my 42 years on this planet. This is the first... Continue Reading →