Every night before bed, I begged my mother to make sure my closet door was snugged tighter than my own cover. We had fallen into a typical nightly routine of her tucking me in, then examining the closet door, even pushing it with her hip to be certain it...
My sister Penny was always afraid of the upstairs at our house she never went up there at night.
Our main conversation every night went something like this ;
Penny: Buffy go upstairs and find me my white sweater, black jeans and leather jacket. (The clothing items would change from night...
When I was in my early teens my dad would drag us to Kentucky every chance he got. 10 hours each way it seemed to me most of our trip was driving.
Finally we would arrive at Aunt Lanys home, god I loved her . She had 9 kids.
My cousin...
My Dad is a proud man. Proud to have made his own way in the world. Proud to have started his own small business and grown it for 40 years. Proud to have moved out of the council estate where he was born and managed to buy himself his...
Over a year the average child consumes a whopping 5543 sugar cubes worth of sugars. That’s 22 bags of sugar, more than the average weight of a five-year-old child in the UK. This habitual over-consumption leads to toothaches and fillings (a positive for the dentist but not for the...
What lies hidden is an upcoming photographic art project by Portrait and Lifestyle photographer Martina La Trobe-Bateman. Within these series of portraits, Martina explores the aspect of identity and its co-existence with illness, trauma and inner challenges. Here, La Trobe-Bateman engages with her volunteers through the medium of art...
Following our piece on the new pop-up art gallery and maker space ‘LAB’, which is working with local artists to bring an array of exhibitions over the next 3 months that highlight the extraordinary creativity of our city and the lovely people in it, we spoke with Ashleigh at Pop-Up Brighton...
Ever wondered how Halloween started? Why it's centred around ghost, ghouls and haunted houses?
The practices of Halloween mostly come from Celtic paganism in the early Britain, and their feast of Samhain, the new year. They believed it was the time when ghosts and spirits came out to haunt, and...
Somewhat of a British cultural gem, The Crystal Maze was a television program that we are sure many of you remember. Airing originally on Channel 4 back in the early 1990s, and with recent versions hosted by Stephen Merchant and Richard Ayoade, the show saw contestants face various physically challenges inside...
Yesterday marked World Mental Health Awareness Day. Social media became awash with posts focusing on mental health, and particularly on millennials and mental health.
With increasing attention allocated by society to depression in the millennial generation, this focus is warranted. In a society dominated by social media, we have the ability to...
