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Work work work ⏰ Full disclosure, especially for my current colleagues reading this: these days, I am a professional person who can hold a job and do good work. But once upon a time, I was a young person who flitted from gig to gig, never really committing, often unsure of

Masterful plans, carried out by the kids What the films of the eighties seemed to be telling me, as I understood it back then, was that there was no end to the resourcefulness of children. They were full of kids inventing gadgets to foil adult villains, like in The Goonies;

Hey, teacher! Today’s episode is about teaching. It covers icy colleagues in Japan, teaching performances gone wrong, burnout, and the almost unbelievable tale of a primary school trip to the sewage treatment plant – coordinated by a teacher who truly must have drawn the short straw. 👉 Podcast episode 4: Hey,

On the air Without a hitch 👍 is now officially also a podcast! Available wherever you listen to podcasts: Apple podcasts, Spotify, Google podcasts, plus a bunch of others. Each episode will bundle featured website pieces in audio format, plus bonus material only included in the podcast. ✨ Here are the first

Without a mistake I chose the phrase “Without a hitch” for my blog partly because some of my early stories were about hitchhiking, but also because it felt like a wry joke. Because: In reality, when does anything go off “without a hitch”? All endeavours (to me) are a mishmash

What’s in a name? Choosing a name for a child is exciting, but fraught. People seem to find it hard to shake their own connotations of a name. Maybe someone bullied them, and they hate that bully’s name forever. Or maybe their parents gave their dog that name,