Steph's Adventures

It is Ash Wednesday, and as this is a time for repenting sins rather than committing them, I won't lie and say I have written this poem ...

Recently, we set our students a group project in English, to produce a brochure and TV advert for TVED. Here in their own words (but with a...

I would probably have returned to this theme sooner, but a lot has happened and there has been a lot to reflect on in the last couple of mon...

Another week, another experience ... Shortly before lunchtime on Monday, Negros island, the next island to the west of us here in Cebu, ...

You will be pleased to hear that I think this may be the final part of my current series of reflections! All of this thinking about Dav...

As well as the sin of sleeping with Bathsheba, David compounds matters by the state-sponsored murder of Uriah. So why the change, from the ...

The story continues though (if you are wondering from what, please read part 1 first!), and somehow, it all seems to go very badly wrong. T...

At daily mass recently the readings have been following the books of Samuel and the story of David, shepherd boy, anointed by a prophet of ...

Today, 31st January, the church celebrates the feast of St John Bosco. We, on the other hand, have already been celebrating this feast for n...

After a short interlude for Santo Nino, this poem returns to a previous theme, that of silence. Melissa's comment forced me to reflect ...

This poem is really a continuation of the ideas I explored in my previous post, but as that was already long enough I decided to offer this ...

Last weekend's festivities are continuing to provide food for thought (and content for blog posts – apologies in advance for the length...

As promised in the previous post, I have been reflecting a little more on the feast of Santo Nino and its meaning. This weekend was undoubt...

This weekend we have experienced Sinulog, and although I have generally avoided writing purely descriptive blog posts explaining things we h...

You can probably spot that part of the inspiration for this latest poem is the peace of our Boholano holiday. But it is also about more tha...

Now the time when we remember the arrival of the wise men at the place of Jesus’ birth, the feast of Epiphany apparently used to celebrate ...

After a very enjoyable fortnight of celebrations and relaxation, we are now back in the classroom, back to the early starts, the day to day ...

With four days of Christmas left, I reckon it is not to late to still be posting about our Christmas celebrations here. It has been very di...

As a New Year begins, it seems like a good moment to look back at 2011 and forward to 2012. I am a great believer in living in the moment an...

A bit different to any of my other paintings, this is an attempt to capture yesterday's poem in illustrated, if rather abstract, form. ...

Usually even if I was inspired to write another Christmas poem on Christmas eve it would be a little late for the Christmas cards. This year...