Do you ever get lost in a book? I know I do. Time appears to dissolve and I often become so absorbed in the story that when I’ve reached the end, the characters remain with me for hours and even days. It’s not unusual for people to hear the voices…

Streaming services have radically altered the way we watch television. In the not too distant past we would eagerly anticipate the latest instalment of our weekly TV show and perhaps even feel a little sad when it was over, only to feel the same rush as our emotions cycled round…

Our memories are awash with experiences; the daily events of our lives, snippets of history, scientific theories, general information about the world around us… the list is limitless. Over time, these experiences create blueprints in our long-term memory so that we can better understand the world without having to re-learn…

I recently experienced a rather distressing event. It certainly wasn’t life threatening by any means, neither was it an event with any long lasting consequences but, nevertheless, it did cause some short-term concern. What was this thing? I hear you ask.

A few days ago I woke with the song…

I’m lying on a beach, the gentle sound of the waves crawling to the shore. I can feel the towel beneath me and the sand between my toes; it’s grainy and I don’t like the way it scratches at my skin. I sit up and brush the sand from the…

Postcodes aren’t exactly interesting, at least that’s what I thought. …

Families can be stressful; just think about the times we gather to celebrate a wedding, a birthday or a religious festival. …

I’ve taught teenagers for more than a decade and managed to raise one myself; the jury’s still out on how successful the latter has been, but it seems to have gone okay. We tend to see the teenager years as defined by, what American psychologist G. Stanley Hall called, storm…