Hope is a most fascinating thing. It can be described as a foundation — or one of them at least — to human existence. What are we without hope? The belief and expectation, that things will be better, that good things, things we want, await us. …

The sky is greying outside. The house is quiet, and feels empty, even though she knows her mother is downstairs, asleep. She’s in the middle of texting her friend, when she pauses to contemplate the strangeness of the air in the moment. There’s a sort of heaviness to it, a…

A story that stunned me speechless. In 1974, twenty-three year old Marina Abramovic, a performance artist who explored body, endurance and feminist art, carried out one of the most chilling and fascinating social experiments and performances to ever be done. She stood motionless in a gallery and nearby was a…

I first discovered the Myers Briggs Type Indicator assessment about a year or two ago. I’d always liked things like personality tests just for a bit of fun, and I happened upon a particular one, claiming 90% accuracy and more authentic results than previous ones I’d taken. So of course…

Unlock the key to body language. If I told you I could read minds, you wouldn’t believe me, would you? What if I said that you can easily learn the ability to deduce what the people around you are thinking in any event? Fascinating, right? …

“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.” — Sigmund Freud The introverted and the extroverted. Two different types of people, seeing the world in different ways and living life in different ways. Everyone has a bit of…

Something I’ve really been pondering recently, is life. Might sound a bit eh, but just pause and take a minute to think about it. Life is huge, impossibly vast and full of countless different things, love, hate, poverty, law, power, knowledge, evils, disease, war. I could go on forever. My…

Around Birmingham The sun’s out. There’s a feeling in the air, the day’s nice and just begging for you to take a break from whatever boring thing you’re doing and go on a little trip. There’s only one problem. Where do you go? Birmingham is alright for tourists, with its…

Books are a uniquely portable magic - Stephen King Fiction. A whole new world, vast and fascinating and beautiful. I like to think that we, as humans, were given Earth, and along with it the world of fiction -everything from films to novels to the colourful and creative tales our…