I wrote the following psalm as an assignment for my Old Testament class. I'm more pleased about what I tried to achieve than the actual result. (Oh the irony! Since this is a psalm about my perfectionism.) Nevertheless, since I have not written any poetry in forever, this is quite an acheivement! It's an attempt to write in the Hebrew poetic form, ( Read more... )

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This poetry reading is fantastic, the poem is fantastic. And the message is fantastic. (I will stop repeating that word now, lest I over-use it, if I haven't already.) And yes, I will wait for You.

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This song is currently on 'repeat' in my mind. Apart from it's catchy tune, it's also stuck because we used it for when the cast took their bows at the conclusion of the drama team's offering for this year's Search for a Star. In fact, our play was titled "Happily Ever After ( Read more... )

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate ( Read more... )

I get free flow of champagne ( Read more... )

It takes me a very long time to write anything. When I get asked to contribute articles, my editors famously know that I will never submit it before the deadline (and sometimes after too), I need to use all the avaliable time. (That's also due to my procrastination but that was already the subject of a previous blog post.) I write, re-write, edit, ( Read more... )

Why do an ode when you can do a trilogy of limericks instead? (I attribute my aptitude in Mathematics to a mother who claims she has 3 vices: shoes, bags, accessories and chocolate.)
A girl from a place Down Under ( Read more... )

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Pardon the language, but take that all you engineers, accountants, lawyers and doctors who mock me and my chosen profession!
Hearing Taylor Mali perform this poem with so much passion and conviction reminds me why I went into teaching. You can also read a transcript of 'What Teachers Make'. But it also made me a little sad that come Monday when ( Read more... )