The Daily Unf*cking: 365 Unfiltered Life Lessons for Surviving Modern Life

Have you heard that old backhanded blessing, or is it curse, “May you live in interesting times”?

Well. "Interesting" feels like a polite understatement. Most mornings, I open my socials the way I’d open a suspicious container in the back of the fridge. Cautiously. Holding my breath. And bracing for a fresh serving of global WTF.

Since the world has officially chosen ‘Unhinged Chaos’ as its aesthetic for 2026, I’ve decided to respond in kind.

With perspective. With humor. With bite.

Over the decades I’ve spent roaming this planet, I’ve curated a small, slightly deranged treasure chest of hard-earned nuggets of wisdom. Some of it is comforting. Some of it is deeply inconvenient. All of it is unfiltered—like me. This is not your mother’s life advice. (Unless your mother was a total badass who didn't take any shit.)

Every single day on Instagram, I’ll be dropping one sharp truth, one savage reflection, or one quotable recalibration to help tilt the scales back toward sanity. So, if you like what I’m doing here, click that Insta link and follow along for your daily dose of Unf*cking.

Less “Live, Laugh, Love.” More “Live, Learn, and Hell Yeah.”

And to jump start you, here are ten of my faves.

Lessons Learnt From A Broken Heart - In Search of Mr Darcy Edition

There are few people on this earth, especially if you are over 40, who can say they've never had their heart broken. It’s almost a rite of passage. Heartbreak has tremendous power. It can hurt, enlighten, destroy, strengthen, shatter, sadden, transform, illuminate, empower and…change lives. It has inspired countless songs that can rip your heart right out of your chest (shout out to Leonard Cohen). It has left poets broken and beautiful, and it has been pretty much the plot in every rom-com I’ve ever obsessively wept over (shout out to Nicholas Sparks and The Notebook.)

I mean, if you are living life, how can you avoid it?

Important Lessons You Can Only Learn From Travelling Solo

It’s been said, once you get past a certain age, and for me, that was fifty, life becomes a little same:same. I had been chugging away at my career for eons, entrenched in a predictable relationship, and booked the same annual holidays spots with the kids in the name of “easy”.

An inevitable boredom seeped in that I just accepted as “age appropriate.”

Truth was, I had stopped growing. I had stopped learning about me…about life… about everything.

But it wasn’t until after a colossal, unpredictable breakup that something extraordinary happened. Not unlike Dorothy’s cyclone, my house, my life…my entire world was lifted up and dropped down hard. I was catapulted out of my comfortable, predictable life and jettisoned into a new, unexplored world.

I was suddenly single…again.

Fear. When Are You Suppose To Push Through It OR Heed Its Very Real Warning?

FEAR. That is what I feel every time I ride that first chair lift of a ski trip.

I only learned to ski in my forties so never possessed that fearless, “throw yourself down the hill” childlike freestyle. Skiing was outside my comfort zone and it did not come naturally due my total lack of any inherited athletic ability (or so I tell myself).

Pushing through my fear I learned to ski. It allowed me to experience some incredible parts of the world I would have otherwise missed. All the while creating and redefining my own personal bests. I felt highs that can only come from overcoming fear and emerging out the other side victorious. But fear is multi-purposed. Push through OR beware? As I get older those lines are getting blurred, not nearly as obvious as they used to be. Fear is there to stop you from doing stupid dumbass shit, right?

A-BROAD IN LONDON

A Survival Guide To Life, Travel & Being Sensationally Single

Since the world has officially chosen ‘Unhinged Chaos’ as its aesthetic for 2026, I’ve decided to respond in kind.

An inevitable boredom seeped in that I just accepted as “age appropriate.”

FEAR. That is what I feel every time I ride that first chair lift of a ski trip.

So How Do You Know What Fear Is Trying To Tell You?

A-BROAD IN LONDON

A Survival Guide To Life, Travel & Being Sensationally Single

Since the world has officially chosen ‘Unhinged Chaos’ as its aesthetic for 2026, I’ve decided to respond in kind.

An inevitable boredom seeped in that I just accepted as “age appropriate.”

FEAR. That is what I feel every time I ride that first chair lift of a ski trip.

So How Do You Know What Fear Is Trying To Tell You?

A Broad in London