Since I got back from Iona to be honest not that much has changed. I came back with an action plan and I’ve started to implement bits of it, but largely I am still spending too much time on the computer, too much time working and not enough time enjoying people or places.
However, there has [...]
I’ve been reading back on my recent blog entries and thought enough moaning; if the American is talking from outside your experience about parenting and you want something more earthy and English start blogging some of the stuff that works for you.
First off, writing the above means that whilst I do spend long periods of [...]
Three ickle things made me smile today:
1) Realising the irony; listening to My Chemical Romance on my i-pod singing “Teenagers scare the living s*it out of me”,(thinking one good thing about teenagers is the music they introduce you to), at the same time as I was reading the book I referred to yesterday [...]
This weeks commuter read is The Five Love Languages of Teenagers by Gary Chapman. Whilst I am very greatful to the individual who thrust this book into my hand on Sunday morning at church, (quickly,in a plain envelope and without comment – much as I imagine one would pass illegal or immoral material) I [...]
This time it’s a CD review. Currently listening to Indigo Girls Despite our Differences. Not a bad album, it’s one of those albums that suits this kind of season; chilled yet cheerful in term of the tunes.
Two parents, one child, two totally different perceptions of that child.
One based upon the image the child wishes to portray to the outside world and can maintain for a few hours or even a few days at a time, one based on the day to day reality.
That is not to say that the day [...]
Hostage in Iraq by Norman Kember is a wierd book which makes a surprisingly easy read. As is admitted within the introduction and acknowledgements the publishers had to take what was primarily a scientific report written by an academic and turn it into a readable account without losing his voice. That is one of [...]
I have finished reading From Preachers to Suffragists by Beverly Zink-Sawyer, which as I said the other day, tells the story of Antoinette Brown Blackwell , Olympia Brown and Anna Howard Shaw.
I know I often get over enthusiastic about things, particularly books, but this one is different. It wasn’t an amazing book in [...]
It appears that my favourite story teller and poet, (who I have to admit being just slightly related to), John Row has discovered YouTube and so if you go down to his site today you can listen to some poetry or a story, depending upon what you choose. Choice number two gives you a [...]
There are times that reading the free links bit of the Baptist Times I am reminded of why I am a Baptist. Their editorial and these two articles relating to the anti-slavery movement of the 19th century do just this. They don’t seek to rewrite history and make life palatable, rather they seek [...]