This week has seen a few global events that allows Sydneysiders to lift their eyes above the backyard fence or beyond the apartment door. Today, Germany is set to go to the polls for the first election in 16 years which will result in someone other than Angela Merkel becoming their Chancellor. It really has …
I don't normally blog on a Monday and I've got to say, I sometimes find it difficult to think of a topic to write about when in lockdown. However, when I heard this morning that a Church had gathered in Blacktown yesterday, I felt the need to pull out a rare-as-hens'-teeth Monday post. You can …
Tomorrow with my Year 12s, we'll spend a good deal of the English lesson doing an educational drama activity. Ye olde plot summary freeze frames. An oldie but a goodie, as they say. There are a number of reason for this. The first one being, I know that not all of them have read the …
Bugbear #3 is again related to being a woman in the Church – because I am one. On the lighter side, this bugbear could be considered unfair laziness. On the darker side, depending on the frequency and tasks, it could amount to spiritual and emotional abuse. Simone de Beauvoir’s first autobiographical work (which I have …
