Dear Mo, (as you prefer today) I dug out my 1971 Magpie diary today to look up the brief entry…
school
Mesmerising Candles…
At rural boarding school when the power went out (regularly in the winter as different unions went on strike for…
Harbour-at-Home…
A harbour is a shelter for boats and ships to anchor, for safe-keeping, or for when there’s a storm. God…
Temptations…
The after Christmas overindulgence habit is fading slowly. I have sweet cravings after my meal and satisfy them by finishing…
Are Things So Different?…
Decades ago when I first graduated from the University of London, I worked some of my probationary year in a…
Out of the Mouths of Babes…
Last Thursday I went into school to teach fourth grade. By now I had taught second and fifth grade and…
Waiting To Teach…
I tell you, this substitute teaching lark is causing restless nights. Not because I’ve taught…yet… But because I gave the…
Cultural Confusion…
I look at some of the young people and listen to them on the bus and wonder how their lives…