: About Me

I stumbled across Helium by chance and now that I'm here I think it a most innovative way to channel creativity.
I've always delighted in writing, mainly short stories, articles, essays and poems.
In fact, I've such a wide variety of interests that Helium suits me down to the ground, there are so many issues you can spout off about...and if there's one thing I never tire of, it's spouting-off!

My passion is ...

Language. Speaking it, creating a character with it, writing it, forming a story and delighting people in the telling.

I know too much about ...

I know the philosophical answer to this question is "nothing." But I actually do know far too much about Harry Pottter.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Kafka on the Shore

My inspiration ...

magic, beauty, innocence, truth, passion

Health & Fitness > Diet Tips Why dieting doesn't work

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"I can resist anything, except temptation." So wrote Oscar Wilde hundreds of years ago, during the repressive Victorian era. If there's one thing that time hasn't altered, it is human beings' desire for the unattainable and the forbidden. Eve herself made that clear, when she reached out to grasp that luscious and oh-so-sinful piece of fruit hanging in the Garden of Eden. So, how many of us suffer from the Eve complex? We all begin our diets full of the best intentions, preparing ourselves for the dark, lonely road of pious self-denial, when suddenly, we have a crisis of conscience. Pictur...

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