Home sweet home
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
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- Jun 9, 2020
- 4 min
Don't give up
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.
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- May 30, 2020
- 4 min
Women's Lib
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
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- May 21, 2020
- 1 min
Anne Mayer: who is she?
Here's a photo of Anne Mayer (86), a regular columnist at Behavioural Shift.
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- May 16, 2020
- 3 min
The importance of companionship
With coronavirus lockdown in full force, online dating sites are apparently booming. People are lonely, even lonelier than usual, so why not
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- May 11, 2020
- 3 min
A little vanity goes a long way
Even in lockdown, where I still take care of my appearance, a little vanity goes a long way.
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- May 5, 2020
- 2 min
Celebrating VE Day
In this column Anne Mayer reflects on her experience of VE Day (which is on 8 May) and what it means to her.
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- Apr 28, 2020
- 3 min
Stories from the pandemic: time management
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
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- Apr 27, 2020
- 3 min
Stories from the pandemic: coping with anger
The canal path is out of the question, despite glorious spring weather. Crammed with cycles, runners, large family groups and NO social dist
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- Apr 20, 2020
- 3 min
Solitary confinement
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
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- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
Long Live the Queen
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.
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- Apr 6, 2020
- 3 min
DON’T DO AGE BY NUMBERS
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
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- Mar 31, 2020
- 3 min
Technology in isolation
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...
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