Year 2 – cherry tree house

The days are long, but the years are short. Looking back at the post I wrote last year, I was…

100 more lessons for life

A continuation of the first iteration of 100 lessons for life. A mix of the funny and the serious.

Speaking at St Polycarp’s, June 23 2024 Matthew 20:1-16 – the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

This week I discussed a Christian campaign letter with colleagues, initially titled a “Statement of Discontent,” now softened to a…

Think of the birth year of the oldest person you know, and then to the end of the likely lifespan…

The kitchen drawers broke some months ago. At first I identified that the problem was a simple matter of getting…

“One of the special things about knowing death is close is that is easier to re-centre life on things other…

Sometime last year I listened to the Slow Newscast episode The trials of Alexei Navalny. It takes you through the…

At the start of the year I reconciled myself to needing to begin using AI. I felt like I crossed…

I feel immensely fortunate. I’ve had a really good year. In anticipation of the need to perhaps engineer some of…

I fell in love with a poem called ‘The Other’ I read close to the beginning of this year by…

When I was younger, an advent calendar was all about the countdown to Christmas. This was an especially exciting sort…