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Teachering, Tetrapaks and Tuku Mihi
It’s been a big ol’ year, folks. Anyone else feeling it? It has been a long while since my fingers have graced the wordpress stage,…
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JoJo x JoJo: The Interview We Never Knew We Needed
I have been going through a JoJo renaissance this past year. Ever since finding out how bad my childhood fave got fucked over by the…
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Ex-Christianity Revisited: Mental Health, Autistic Burnout & the Church
This may surprise some, but I don’t write-off my entire Christian past as negative. The relationship I have with that life stage is a complex…
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Ex-Christianity Revisited: God is ___
We’re throwing it back hardcore, to my first ever blog post on this site, God is Good?. I was still living Bahrain when I wrote…
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Open Letter to Tweenage Me
Hey, tweenage Abby. How’s it going? What’s new? Just kidding – everything that is new for you right now is Very Old For Me. I’m…
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8 Things Women on the Spectrum Want You to Know
It’s hard to believe this is only the second time I’m discussing my autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. The first time was my “coming out”…
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Musings on Mortality (Part Two)
Bridging clumsily into an extended climate change brain dump, I continue my quest. For what? …to normalise discussions about our mortal souls, of course. In…
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Musings on Mortality (Part One)
Let’s talk about death ba-by, let’s talk about you and grief, let’s talk about all the big things and the bad things that may be……
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This Teachering Thing
I’m as exhausted as I am exhilarated by my first proper week of full time teaching. My students are fantastic, my colleagues are a tremendously…
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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.… Continue reading On Kids Camps, Worship Bands and Life with Jesus (Part One)
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… Continue reading Hillsong Music, Twelvie Me and Decolonising God (Part Two)
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… Continue reading Leading Kids to Christ, Youth Groups, and Teenhood with Jesus (Part Three)
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… Continue reading Thinking About Weird Things, Philosophy for Kids and A Symphonic Soundscape (Part Four)
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