Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Translated Japanese literature has recently become a lot more popular in the UK book world. Where before, Japanese books about cats either being a metaphor for death or some other difficult life lesson were a rarity, now they come in their masses (and I’m not complaining, it turns out this is exactly my type in

Why the world needs philosophers (and people interested in any subject really)

I’m not entirely sure why, but in one of my friendship groups, we’ve really adopted the phrase “women in STEM” as a response to anything that women do. This is met with nods of the head, and an echoing “women in STEM” in return. Regardless of how good or bad the action is, or how

Down with the single tax!

Now the title of this piece may lead you to believe this is going to be me moaning about being single in a subconsciously envious of couples way. I hope it won’t be that, but I guess I can’t make any promises. This concept came up when reading some form of feminist literature over the

7 years later

I find it interesting that over the course of this blog’s lifetime, there’s only one trend or pattern I can really see in the posts I’ve shared and what people have responded to. Every May, I reach record views, particularly with my most popular post which is a silly little poem I wrote about missing

Timidness

Over the summer, I took a leap and went to work for a family in Italy. I didn’t know them beforehand; although I knew I was staying with them I wasn’t entirely sure where that was. I hadn’t been told a lot about what I’d be doing, but had been given the umbrella term of

Friends are well worth the hype

My big revelation on turning 24 was that most things are improved by having friends around. This may seem like an obvious revelation, however, I find myself isolating myself from friends again and again for one reason or another. Often, this is due to feeling burnt-out and the only solution seems to be watching films