Science shows that we improve creativity in later years. How do you fancy picking up that paintbrush again? The Turner Prize has historically always been about celebrating artistic breakthroughs, but up until 2017, the...
Author - Erika Lucas
Erika Lucas
Confessions of a fashion-forward fifty-something
“Everyone, I’ve found, has a view about what I should wear and what’s appropriate for my age” Hello, my name’s Erika, I’m 55 and I wear faux fur, bright red lipstick and over-the-knee boots (not...
Stop being ignored at work because of your age. Time to stop being a wallflower
Ageism at work is illegal, but it does happen. Training expert Erika Lucas suggests five ways to get noticed in the office – and make sure the boss knows you’re ambitious An opportunity for promotion comes...
If you’re happy and you know it
What is ‘happy’ anyway? How happy are you on a scale of one to 10? And if your score isn’t as high as you’d like it to be, is there anything you can do about it? Can we control how happy we are? The latest scientific...
Walk this way …
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today, and we don’t know where the hell she is.” So said American comedienne and TV presenter Ellen DeGeneres. But while five miles may be a...