Simone Warner

How the craft community embraces tough economic times and makes life better by keeping hand crafting skills alive.

Can being like the children's character Pollyanna with her postive thinking, make you more healthy, wealthy and wise? Or is it just another glib sound bite to sell books, DVDs and courses?

Do you enter writing competitions to make money or gain prestige? Do you ever worry it's becoming an addiction like any other?

No one chooses to get grey hair. It’s another example of how our bodies make decisions without consulting us first. For example, did we decide to be short? Or tall? What about eye colour? Brown eyes are fine, but green would have been great. And who gave permission for those flat fe...

How do we know if our New Big Idea will be part of the Zeitgeist? And what happens if we wait too long and the Zeitgeist passes us by?

If you can’t afford new clothes don’t just give up. There’s lots of options available for revamping a tired wardrobe.

Lots of people like to sing, but if you have an illness do you realise the many health benefits that you get when you give your version of 'My Way'?