Written by Shazeen (UK), Interviewing Lance Williams (USA) Being alone is also about creatively losing yourself into your strengths and your weaknesses, and marrying them in a union that was divorced by what others insisted you become. It was Steve Toltz who said, in “A Fraction of the Whole”… “You experience life alone, you can […]
By Leon Tsao People were fairly amused for my inability to produce words adequately and fluidly. I remember back when I was in high school we were to give presentations, and my voice shook and stammered as I spoke in a whisper, sensitively as if any word would set off a bomb. As the class […]
By Susan Chen I find one of my biggest obstacles when it comes to writing articles such as these, is that I never know what to write. How can I write an article that represents a certain depth of me, while also representing the totality of me, and my life’s journey? I do admit, it […]
By Shazeen, UK Being born and bred in Birmingham, I experienced both a sheltered and an adventurous life. When you hear about being sheltered, you immediately could think of a person not being outgoing. This was not true in my case. I was always an outgoing person. If I was caught in a web of […]
By Maira Butt I’m a lifetime member of that cursed and denigrated group: the dreamers. Always imagining, thinking, wishing, hoping, craving, thinking of a world that doesn’t exist but that you live to prove should. The usually poisonous term used to dismiss our thoughts, aspirations and actions is ‘naïve’ or the one I personally most […]
This story is by Josef at josefboutte-art-blog. Josef is a creative, young man with a strong ambition to fulfill his life’s dreams. He is a rather intriguing folk because he has his own style and method to achieving his dreams. Living for the moment is also a vital ingredient of his happiness. I will hand […]
On a delightful summer evening, I was in the Central Library of Birmingham. My finger tips excitedly danced on the edges of a fine, shiny book as I was prepared to slide it out of the sandwich of other books that it nestled in. Suddenly, I caught a man from the corner of my eye […]