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Three Things I Really Don’t Love.
Merging onto Row Highway last week, my nine-year-old glances over her right shoulder and with casual condescension says, "feel free to change lanes any time now, Mum." It makes me so cross I almost pop a vein in my neck. A few days later I'm driving into the sun and I...
The Cultural Implications of a Viral World for National Identity (or something like that…)
I’ve been thinking a lot about things that go viral. The music clip ‘This is America’ by Childish Gambino/Donald Glover, published to YouTube on May 5th, was viewed over 135 million times in the week after it was released. I’ve linked it here, but don’t watch it. It’s...
Doing what you’re best at when you’re at your best.
Carey Nieuwhof is a Canadian pastor, author and pod-caster and he is #christianfamous for being a profoundly insightful leader. Carey's weekly podcast is extremely popular and his guests are basically a line-up of the most influential Christian leaders in the USA and...
The (Dying) Art of Introduction
This is the scenario: you're attending the 5th birthday party of a kid from your kid's class (you can't leave because you're still in that super awkward stage of supervised play dates with strangers) OR you're standing in the foyer of your church after the service...
Excuses not to sport.
I’m not very good at sport. I think I might have a legitimate excuse though. When I was a kid, when I got tired, my left eye would droop. I couldn’t keep it open no matter how hard I tried. No one seemed to think it was weird. Or maybe my dad had too much on his plate...
Cherry Chaos
To the mums and dads getting the kids ready for school, The last few days of getting-ready-for-school rated at a 10 on the Cherry Chaos Scale. On Friday, 10 minutes before departure time, when no hair had been brushed and library books were still AWOL, I snuck off to...
