by Katy | Feb 28, 2023 | Faith, Pop Culture, Reviews
Saturday 3 December 2022. It was going to be a good day. A special day. It was a West End musical day! My sister and I have a tradition that we refer to as “sister dates”. As a general rule, they consist of a meal together (Wagamama or Chinese takeaway typically) and...
by Katy | Feb 5, 2023 | Faith, Identity
I started writing this in the second half of January 2023. Really it should have been ready to post on 31 December. But I guess that is why one of my goals for this year is to begin writing more regularly again. Which was also a goal for 2022… and 2021… and 2020…...
by Katy | Jan 15, 2023 | Identity, Testimonies
Well, having found my word, maybe I do know what I want – rootedness and stability while reaching up and out. Me at the start of 2022 It’s that time of year again when we all start to look back at the last year and ask the terrifying questions: How did I grow?...
by Katy | Sep 19, 2022 | History
Since Thursday 8 September, according to the news, the world has been turned upside down. The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has caused untold levels of sadness, grief and mourning across the country, and even the world. Or at least that is what the news...
by Katy | Jan 3, 2022 | Church Life, Mental Health
This is an old post… as in from my last blog, which I closed down at the end of 2017 in order to launch Finding Chaya. So why revisit it now? Because once again I am finding myself moving to a city to be part of a large church where one service is double the...
by Katy | Aug 4, 2021 | Faith
How would you finish a sentence that began “For the love of…”? Automatically, I want to finish it with “all that is holy” even though I know how blasphemous it sounds. You probably chose a similar ending – something that conveys...