• April 19 2025
  Life & Arts

  A different economic outlook

  Amid the news of market turmoil, we should not ignore the currencies of hospitality, patience and care

  
• April 7 2025
  FT GlobetrotterMy Top 10

  My top 10: Enuma Okoro’s picks from Frankfurt’s Städel Museum

  Key works from one of Germany’s most important art collections, from Botticelli to Die Brücke

  
• April 5 2025
  Life & Arts

  Symbol of renewal, antidote to bleak news — spring is just a beginning

  The season is a celebration of new possibilities

  
• March 22 2025
  Life & Arts

  In praise of unsung heroines

  We should seek out and celebrate the contributions of women — both in the present day and throughout history

  
• February 22 2025
  Life & Arts

  How should we face up to danger?

  Risky situations are part of life — but we have a choice in how we confront them

  
• February 8 2025
  Life & Arts

  The subversive power of joy

  Small pleasures lift the spirits, but they can be acts of resistance too

  
• February 1 2025
  Life & Arts

  In search of life’s compass

  It’s all too easy to be swept up in the momentum of those around us rather than pausing to develop our own values

  
• January 18 2025
  Lifestyle

  Feeling blue? It’s OK not to be OK

  Many of us can find January a struggle but endurance is an underestimated characteristic

  
• January 17 2025
  Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast60 min listen

  Our final episode: thank you

  For our last ever episode, Lilah answers listener questions with our top FT critics, columnists and experts about music, cooking, careers and more

  
• January 4 2025
  Life & Arts

  Our own work in progress

  Rather than a fresh start, the new year is a time to recognise our lives as an ongoing journey

  
• December 24 2024
  Life & Arts

  The lessons of the ‘lowly’ shepherds

  The humble characters of the Nativity story have much to teach us about being open to ideas of spirituality

  
• December 14 2024
  Life & Arts

  When church bells stop us in our tracks

  Often the things we dismiss as interruptions to our busy lives are in fact opportunities for reflection

  
• November 30 2024
  Life & Arts

  We’re all in this together

  A good community is the perfect place in which to confirm, refine or transform our individual perspectives

  
• November 16 2024
  Life & Arts

  When love is not just romance but compassion, too

  A generosity of spirit can guide us through the turmoil of the modern world

  
• November 4 2024
  FT GlobetrotterMy Top 10

  My top 10: Enuma Okoro’s selection of works by women in Copenhagen’s Hirschsprung Collection

  This intimate museum highlights the beautiful, often-overlooked work of Danish women artists from the 19th and early 20th centuries

  
• November 2 2024
  Life & Arts

  Where should we place our faith?

  At a time of deep uncertainty, we should anchor our confidence in the young people who represent the next generation

  
• October 26 2024
  Life & Arts

  Reading — the everyday luxury that opens hearts and minds

  Books invite us to reflect on a multiplicity of worlds

  
• October 5 2024
  Life & Arts

  When one door closes . . .

  How should we approach the sometimes daunting opportunities life offers us?

  
• September 28 2024
  Life & Arts

  The canvas of life’s seasons

  Autumn offers us an opportunity to contemplate our own mortality

  
• September 7 2024
  Life & Arts

  How can women navigate later life?

  There is power to be gained in living on one’s own terms

  
• August 31 2024
  Life & Arts

  Why is it so hard to ask for help?

  Seeking aid is not a sign of weakness: it provides the building blocks for our faith in humanity

  
• August 10 2024
  Life & Arts

  In August, the rhythms of the natural world remind us to take stock

  Harvest time encourages us to reflect on where we are in our lives

  
• July 6 2024
  Life & Arts

  Making peace with our ghosts

  We are all haunted by people and experiences from our past — but can we learn to face them?

  
• June 23 2024
  Life & Arts

  Visions of sanctuary, in life and art

  In a culture that tells us rest is for the weak, we need space to refresh body and mind

  
• June 8 2024
  Life & Arts

  The beauty and burdens we carry

  The physical and emotional weights we bear tell stories about our values, fears and longings