I will never forget that very early morning arrival at Heathrow when the man in the booth looked at my passport and said: “You cannot come i

Anne Mayer explains how she always feels good about herself even as she ages, and what you can do to always feel good about yourself too.

If Mr. Right did not appear on cue, we might teach or be a librarian or a secretary, but being marked out as a spinster was the death knell

Here's a photo of Anne Mayer (86), a regular columnist at Behavioural Shift.

With coronavirus lockdown in full force, online dating sites are apparently booming. People are lonely, even lonelier than usual, so why not

Even in lockdown, where I still take care of my appearance, a little vanity goes a long way.

In this column Anne Mayer reflects on her experience of VE Day (which is on 8 May) and what it means to her.

We thought we would have got round to those nasty cleaning jobs we could never find the time to attend to. We will have read those books, li

The canal path is out of the question, despite glorious spring weather. Crammed with cycles, runners, large family groups and NO social dist

These are extraordinary times and we are all suffering under lockdown. Some are locked up in small spaces with too many people and others ar

Older people have been made to feel that they are the excess cargo which needs to be dumped into the sea before the ship goes down.

Ageism is as ugly as any other “ism”, but we can only defeat it by not conforming to its basic claims, that people and especially women of a

This article by Anne Mayer Bird is the first of several that she will be writing about life for the post 80s. I love the new website for...