Note: I created this post just when I posted this 200th entry to my blog. I now update this regularly(ish) as new entries are added. The number of entries is now in excess of 400 and continually being added to. It is intended as an easy guide to the entries that make up this blog. Continue reading
Martin Luther King
In recent days, I have come across a number of Facebook posts regarding Martin Luther King. I also discovered a “must see” film about some important aspects of his work has just been released. Continue reading
School Funding Crisis
Among the emails received yesterday was one from my son’s school (and the one I once attended too) regarding an anticipated shortfall in funding for the coming year. Continue reading
Volunteering
I have been thinking a lot about volunteers and volunteering recently and I thought I would share some of my thoughts here. Continue reading
The Gay Conundrum
Prologue
The seeds for my book, “The Gay Conundrum“, were sowed nearly five years ago Continue reading
Politics, Religion and Poverty
I was struck by recent reports concerning the two senior Anglican archbishops and their comments concerning poverty and the state of the nation, and what this has to do with religion and politics, and the discussions that followed. Continue reading
Je suis Charlie
The reverberations from the atrocity in Paris that took the lives of staff working at the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo”, Continue reading
Dementia friends
Twice this week I was at meetings when a speaker spoke about “dementia friends” and making our community more dementia friendly. Continue reading
Election debates
One of the simmering stories over these past few weeks has been that of representation in election debates, Continue reading