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I was shocked recently to come across a website that could calculate for me in a second how many days I've been alive. For me, it's more than 23 thousand days.

The 'Trillion Dollar Bailout Ride'. I wore shoes like this when I was about 18. I remember red ones with a bow on the front, just like this sketch of mine.

This will be a short editorial because I have swine flu. Well, I probably have a cold, in fact, but I figure the self-diagnosis of swine flu will get me more sympathy.

Are we witnessing the decline and fall of our civilization? Sometimes, when I look at TV, I think so.

It's the time of year for flies and other pesky critters in our homes. But we harbour them in our hearts and minds as well. Here's one to beware of, The Fear Fly.

I'm writing a new novel set around 1880 and the more I read letters from that era that end in flourishing signatures, preceded by phrases like "yours very truly", the harder it is to wrench myself back into today.

It seems like such a short time ago that we were all hyped up over the end of the 90s. The new millennium was coming! A brave new age!

Have we ever heard so much about silver bullets as in recent times? Not that anyone is being over-optimistic about the power of the famed SB... far from it.

I had a grim week this summer. I stopped drinking coffee.

With great hair, perfect makeup and huge CVs, they're the world's new powerful females. But forget tired old feminist notions. This lot still want to change things, but differently - via conscious evolution.