The urge to consume non-food items like chalk and paper strikes millions of people worldwide, creating intense daily cravings that can feel impossible to resist. These seemingly bizarre desires aren’t ...

There’s something about chalkboards that people just love. Maybe it’s the nostalgia — if it’s possible to be nostalgic about seeing the words “pop quiz today” written in chalk. One big decorating ...

I became fixated with chalkboards at an early age, when a neighbor gave me a chalkboard easel her children had outgrown. With that dusty board, all I had to do was add a swirl of imagination and my ...

When prep school teacher Shin Hyeong-Seok came to Japan some 15 years ago and discovered the holy grail of chalk, he fell so deeply in love that he became an importer. Now, he manufactures the ...

Even in challenging times, a fresh source of delight can turn up just when you least expect it. And you never know how much that happiness might help you, and how that boost might put you in a better ...

Chantal Tseng is looking at pictures of cartoon lions on her phone. She wants to draw a comic feline on the chalkboard that hangs at the front of the sherry- and ham-obsessed Mockingbird Hill in Shaw, ...

BELFAST artist Connor Maguire returns to his home town with an new exhibition of work, showcasing a range of portrait drawings and woodcut prints of familiar landscapes. Maguire has won critical ...

NEARLY all pregnant women get food cravings - but Stacey Solomon's admission she's eating salads drenched in vinegar pales in comparison with this lot. These three mums were all blighted by pica, an ...

Pica is the craving of non-food items - and it's most common during pregnancy NEARLY all pregnant women get food cravings – but Stacey Solomon’s admission she’s eating salads drenched in vinegar pales ...