It’s complicated. I love that phrase. An excellent cop out from explaining yourself. After all it could very well be complicated. In terms of how things are going with the Dryden Family in many ways it’s not complicated. In some ways, however, it is. We have moved. Yes. Again. I have been blogging since 2005, […]
Read More A Dryden Update: What Is Going On Now?I could complain about a number of things – the state of the world, the state of the country, the state of the city, the state of the community, the state of the church. I could do that, but what’s the point? Complaining hasn’t improved anything – it is actually addressing the issue that has […]
Read More Nightchurch: Doing Something Right By Sharing The LightI dedicate this particular post to a man called Simon Lovatt. It is two years now since I left North Staffs YMCA, in that time it seems like I’ve crammed in quite a lot – enough to forget some other things. Yet I remember Simon who worked at the YMCA. He was a man for […]
Read More Getting Our Hopes UpA brief part of the autobiography reveals the following. From 1996-1999 I attended Essex University and after that I lived in London for six months. In a move that would startle and surprise some (like my Mum and Dad) whilst having everything seemingly go my way, I packed up everything and moved to the middle […]
Read More Learning From Your Mistakes – Ten Years OnI am loving Twitter. The brevity, the speed of information, the diversity of interests to follow and the creativity used in expression is some of the reasons I love it so much. With the ease of availability – to me a tweet is literally getting a text from a friend – I can also enjoy […]
Read More Best Thing I Ever DidSchool plays. Did you love school plays? Even if they were just plays for your year or your class, did you like them? I liked them. I remember doing ‘There’s A Hole In My Bucket’ at Infant School – but that is a vague recollection of my first performance. I remember the school plays when […]
Read More Leaving Stoke – One Year OnCelebrating turning 33 I’ve been reflecting on what’s happened from Nov 2009 til now. It has been a year of three’s and I reflected on how that was the case with the home situation. as well as that though, there was also the issue with my work. Jobs Along the similar theme of being settled […]
Read More The State of DMCD Address – Part TwoYes indeed, to repeat something that’s been mentioned one or two times today (maybe even three if we want to be technical) it is my birthday. I have a Facebook account and it was pleasant to read those who’d left a comment on there regarding the birthday and seeing the names of those who did […]
Read More The State of DMCD Address – Part OneWe are continuing the series on me growing journey of understanding what family is. As a recap there was the early days back in Wellingborough. I saw a wider world of family church wise when I went to Peckham during the university days. There was the dramatic shift in fortunes from the comforts of church […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Broader HorizonsThis is the third in a series of blogs on the topic of my growing understanding of what family is. I started at the beginning – which has to be a first … probably. I established what family was in the formative years in my life. From there I went onto talk about the radical […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Living With The Lawrences
Life With CD 