Sheilagh Head’s studio is chaotic. Mixed in with paint tubes and canvases are bits and pieces the artist has brought home for inspiration — leaves, bits of glass.
“I’m bursting at the seams,” said the...
Like anything, writing fiction has its challenges.
One of them, according to Liz Jones, is finding a way “into the minds of characters who are not you”.
It’s what she did with A Dark Iris.
The novel w...
It took a while for Chris Blandford to understand the significance of Stonehenge.
Granted, he was 8. Scrambling over the stones and going for an ice cream were more his speed.
A lot has changed.
At 7...
For years, Joyce Smith was terrified of speaking to anyone who wasn’t a family member or close friend.
She didn’t want them to hear her stammer.
“In school the children would laugh at me,” said the 73...
Whether at a party or the grocery store, people have no hesitation in sharing their most intimate problems with Charles Dyer.
Urinary tract infections, incontinence, prostate trouble — the questions a...
Jean Amédé Caze thought learning the trumpet would be easy. Once he got it home, he realised his mistake. “It took me three days of trying just to make sound come out of the instrument,” the 35-year-...
Mariah Cordeiro vividly remembers the first time she was sexually harassed.
She was 13, playing mini-golf with her family, when a man asked her to squat.
After repeated requests, she gave in because s...
Nancy Missett was more than a little sceptical when her daughter suggested she enter a triathlon. After all, she was about to turn 75.
“I said, ‘At my age?’,” laughed the retired teacher. “My daughter...
Eugene “Buck” Woods knows a good thing when he sees it.
He spotted Jewell Raynor on the street in 1957 and knew instantly that she’d make an excellent wife.
“She was a very attractive young lady,” th...
Kerry Magro is an author, movie consultant and motivational speaker, and has spoken in 100 different locations in the last year.
When he was a child, his parents never imagined such a life for him as ...
