My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

Of course, I’d like to fall in love and get married one day - my brother has just got engaged and I’m thrilled for him - but I’m not obsessing about meeting someone."

I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it's a different world.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work.