To be an icon of sexual attraction to men can never have been easy, and now even queer men find themselves fighting to fit into that category of being. Witness Elizabeth Taylor standing on the ‘burnish’d gold’ of her barge as Cleopatra, dressed and made-up to the nines but still clearly a woman of some … More Even positive psychology cannot ignore the truths of the ‘inverted U’ curve that do not go away.

Currently, I am reading the five volumes of Leonard Woolf’s autobiography. I am on the third crucial volume in which his concern for the oncoming suicide of his wife Virginia is first talked about and explanations that as they increase still don’t suffice to accumulate more than genuine understanding of that tortured, but infinitely great, … More Ageing on its own makes nothing better; if anything, it makes it much more difficult, and in more than one way, ‘harder’ to achieve authenticity as a person aiming for ‘a way to the Better’.