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Je ne suis pas Lyonnaise… encore
Bonjour tous le monde, from a TGV (high-speed train). As I write this, I’m somewhere between Lyon and Zurich. As the third largest city in France,…
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Childhood Nostalgia: 90s Tech Rewind
What makes you feel nostalgic? Music from my childhood. Specifically, almost anything by Crowded House, Bic Runga’s Get Some Sleep, Goldenhorse’s Northern Lights, and Tim…
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Unexpected Playtime Pleasures (Daily Prompt #1805)
I think as humans we are naturally a playful species. I can only hope that as I continue to age I still play as shamelessly…
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Legoland, Supersonic Speeds and a Glorious Croissant
Adulting at Legoland If you couldn’t already tell, my partner and I are adult children. Birmingham’s Legoland was her idea, and I was content enough…
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Bladders, Castles and Peasant Sticks
Bladder of Steel I’m picking right back up from where I left off – our arrival! Something I neglected to mention about the flight, is…
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Changing Contexts: Emotional Farewells and Starting SpEd
Next year, I am moving on from my current teacher context to work at a special education school. I’ll be with the 15 to 21-year-olds,…
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Rusty French, Inflight Tetris and Yelling at Mothers
This Christmas, I’m in the UK to celebrate with my partner’s side of the family. It’s a bunch of first times – first winter Christmas,…
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Submission (2022 Poem)
24/1/2022 Out of nowhereshe slits my skindaggers in my backand I stoop, stunned. It’s all at onceit’s thick and it’s oozingover all my well-kept, compartmentalised…
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Confronting Sexual Purity Culture (Part 2)
Three and a half years on from Confronting Sexual Purity Culture part one – where do I sit? How is my relationship to my sexuality,…
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Jesus and Me: Ex-Christianity in Focus
On Kids Camps, Worship Bands and Life with Jesus (Part One)
Kids Camps Attending kids camps as a youngster was easily the most significant factor in my conversion to Christianity. I went to my first one in January 2007, about a month after I turned nine.…
Hillsong Music, Twelvie Me and Decolonising God (Part Two)
So I’m now saving my discussion of teenhood with Jesus and leading kids to Christ for part three, just because it makes more linear sense – and there is a colossal amount to unpack. Philosophising…
Leading Kids to Christ, Youth Groups, and Teenhood with Jesus (Part Three)
Turn and Face the Strange As a young teenager, I was very timid, very awkward, and very in love with words, sounds and songs. I was fascinated by the lyricism, poetry and prose of the…
Thinking About Weird Things, Philosophy for Kids and A Symphonic Soundscape (Part Four)
Idk about you, but in my classroom, I’ll be out here doing my best to create thinkers and celebrate their diversity, for it is the spice of life (#stolen – oops). I know a spectrum…
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