A Manifesto for 2022 Last year was one of much soul searching and reflecting back in order to make sense of the here and now. I usually write my ‘new year’ posts a few days into the new year, it never seems to coalesce for me in those long, dark, stretched out days between Christmas […]
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The Art of Thankfulness This post is a rewrite of an earlier one, now lost to my previous blog. 2011 was the year. Prince William married Catherine Middleton; there were riots in England after the killing of Mark Duggan; Barak Obama was president of the US; David Cameron was Prime Minister in the UK; there
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100 Good Things the 2021 edition 100 things to be thankful for The 2021 edition It’s been even more of a rollercoaster year than usual but I think being thankful, even when you have to look hard for things to be thankful for, is an essential way of life. With that in mind, I’m listing
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Christmas Stress Some years ago I wrote a blog post entitled ‘Christmas isn’t Easy’ that looking back seems to reveal more about my own chaotic life than perhaps I’d realised. Here’s an excerpt from that post: “If you’re like me you’ve read that title and practically spat out your tea/coffee/wine/hard liquor. Of course, Christmas isn’t
For World Teacher’s Day Here’s to those who taught me and my friends when we were much younger than we are today Here’s to those who opened my eyes to truth and beauty when I was small and when I was much bigger Here’s to those who taught me how to teach, those in whom
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Finding Your Flow Since I began my business supporting those who support young people, through mentoring, training and writing, I have come across many people very unhappy in their job. Not always because of the specific job they do, but more usually because of the pressure being placed on them. Sometimes that’s from other people,
Do What You Love It’s easy enough to say isn’t it, ‘do what you love’. And I don’t know about you but to me it also implies a defiant and belligerent ‘and nothing else’ on the end. How unrealistic, how tempting! Increasingly though I am realising two things, one is that doing what you love
Summer Holidays In the UK we spend a lot of our time wishing for summer, for warm, light days that seem to stretch out forever. As kids we’re waiting for the long holidays to begin, remembering these days as blissful, no expectations, no racing to get to school, no homework and so on and so
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What a year 2020 has been! I mean, I usually get to this point in the year and begin to look back on all the things that have happened and have a similar sort of thought – after all a year is a long time and lots can, and usually does, happen – but this
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New Beginnings It’s the night before the beginning of the new school year and I can’t sleep. September has always felt more like the beginning of a new year for me than January, I guess it has to do with working in and around education for most of my working life. But it’s also to
