A friend has been sending me messages looking for advice on buying a house. I am not really the person for such advice, but I guess he wanted some perspective because he is up in the air as to whether

​Привіт усім. Я сьогодні пройшла скринінг, який надіслала нам наша держава. — У вас хороші показники: кардіограма, тиск 90/60, рівень кисню 96, пройдіть анкетування, здасте аналізи — і готово. — А я очікувала

Why oh why would that dog wander off like that?

When it comes to all the books I've read so far, Atomic Habit feels different, first of all I would say it is the first book on psychology that I've read. One of my major plans in life is to study psychology

That was a good wedding. I am tired from it though. What I liked about this particular wedding was while there were some speeches, there wasn't a lot of program. Instead, the focus was more on people spending

Someone I know was telling me about a guy he knows, he said that guy is very hardworking, has a great attitude to work, and never complains even when his employer pays him poorly. Now this person I know

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

En ​It’s so funny how children actually find work in nature boring. They can sit for hours doing nothing on their phones, but working in the garden or orchard requires effort, patience, and the ability

Someone called me recently to ask for some advice about a job they're about to undertake and I gave them some advice that felt really negative, depressing and discouraging. I told them to go with the advice

For the second time in my life, today I will wear a bowtie. They call it a "mirri" in Finnish, which also means cat - I suppose because it is a bit like whiskers. I didn't own a bowtie because

Times have changed, and sometimes I think they’ve changed too much, and in many cases for the worse. I usually travel by bus; in fact, I’ve done so all my life, ever since I was a child. I very rarely

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

It was not Toto. It was The Empire’s own insatiable pursuit of hegemony that revealed its true, ugly face…

Each day in there are a few news articles from the national broadcaster pushed out in English, with many really not so relevant to anything nor going in-depth, but can be interesting. Like today, there

I know someone who has some of the world's most valuable skills and talent, they've been like that for a while, for a long time, and they're still as broke. So I took some time to analyse why this is so,

Photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope on Unsplash Been away for a few days. Seemed to have found myself down a black hole with the demons again. Didn't feel like doing much of anything. No socialization.

VERSION EN ESPAÑOL Un día llegó a mi casa un conocido, del que, a través de otro conocido, pero más cercano a mí, tenía referencia de que andaba en algunas cuestiones que parecían raras para el comportamiento

While we tend not to work in our own best interests, I was just wondering how many of us believe we work in the best interest of others. Are we do-gooders, or are we selfish? Do we go out of our way to

Life is full of false dichotomies and the more polarised we become as a society, the more that are thrown at us to force us to choose a side. You are either with us, or against us. Right? And I think that

I saw a post on Hive, and the person made a post to document their healing process after a surgical procedure and honestly I was happy to see a lot of Hive community folks cheering the man on, and giving