Crossing Meridians
Teach. Travel. Reflect.
Three decades of classrooms, a late start on the rest of the world, and the thinking that happens somewhere in between.
What I Write About
Three threads, one running notebook.
Education
Four decades in classrooms, staffrooms and ministries across the Pacific — what actually teaches, and what just performs teaching.
Read the essays →Travel
Slow travel, late arrivals, and the ordinary Tuesdays in other countries that turn out to matter more than the postcard moments.
Read the essays →Reflection
Sixty-plus years of getting some of it wrong, in public, on purpose — and what that’s taught me since.
Read the essays →From The Field Notes
Latest Writing
I Didn’t Know What I Was Afraid Of
Sixty years of staying put, until an ordinary afternoon in an Ecuador square undid it.
What Have You Done With My Daughter?
What a week in the bush does to a kid that no classroom ever could.
The Art of Arrival
The first day in any country is the most honest mirror you’ll get.
About
A Teacher Who Wanders,
A Traveller Who Thinks
With over three decades in classrooms, staffrooms, and government ministries across the Pacific and beyond — and the occasional beer with a president — I write about the intersections of education, culture, and a life examined. I’ve worked in schools and education systems from village classrooms to national policy tables. This is where those lessons, and my wanderings, finally meet the page.
Adding Life to Learning English
A 100 high-frequency words activity series for the primary classroom — Cambodia-set stories, talk-first lessons, and a teacher’s answer key for every page. The pack doesn’t just give you material to teach — it includes a simple, step-by-step guide for how to teach it, story by story.