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“Because parenting isn’t a real career”
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I am humbled, proud, excited and just a tad braggish to announce three huge milestones in my previously unacknowledged career as a parent. First, our oldest child, who is six, started school this week, and kicked so many goals in doing so that it left a small, permanent tear in the corner of my eye.…
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10K Ultra (JK)
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Anyone who’s known me for longer than five minutes might want to sit down for this post. Today I ran a 10-kilometre race for the first time in my 49 years on this mortal coil. I’m now collapsed on the couch having applied a full bag of peas to my right knee, imbibed an ibuprofen-paracetamol…
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How to run a Swedish mile
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Anyone who’s known me for longer than five minutes might want to sit down for this post. Today I ran a 10klm race for the first time in my 49 years on this mortal coil. I’m now collapsed on the couch having applied a full bag of peas to my right knee, imbibed an ibuprofen-paracetamol…
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I’m really proud to have played a small part in helping the International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations put together the second edition of its groundbreaking study on leadership in UN peace operations, Considerations for Mission Leadership in UN Peace Operations. My role in the project entailed editing and bringing together six chapters…
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While the history of Dag Hammarskjöld’s Oxford lecture could fill a book, this post explores the untold stories behind three known versions of the text.
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Here’s what’s been keeping me busy for the past three months: a reissue of Dag Hammarskjöld’s 1961 Oxford lecture, ‘The International Civil Servant in Law and in Fact’. On 30 May 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld gave a lecture in Oxford about the international civil service. Now, 60 years later, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF) has reissued…
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Stéphane Mallarmé is dead. Long may his absence linger. Long may the horrifying abyss of the white (and black) pages confound we poets, prattlers and plagiarists. And long may we question the substance of our languages, the correspondences between organic, systemic lifeforms and the unstoppable progress of symbols: numbers, letters, marks, voids . . .…
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Eksell WordPress theme
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There are layers of nerd in the WordPress universe.
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Vast
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You could take Brazil in an afternoon, sure. Knock yerself out, call me when yr done, etc. Consider that continent’s arc: it’s gesturing across the Atlantic, towards Ghana, or was it Côte d’Ivoire, or both? — you decide, call me when it’s done. Let us speak of it forever, or more. Speak of vast hillsides…
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The Old Invisible Sankt Olof Express
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“Something special. Something almost hyperreal.”
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Ten years in Sweden
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And … that’s a wrap for the decade! This time 10 years ago the K&D Stylingz crew travelled for the first time to “breezy” Karlskrona in the Swedish province of Blekinge. The entire country was blanketed in heavy snow and, as you can see from this picture, even the sea was frozen. For, like, a…
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The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
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It’s super exciting for me that “Capa” has received not a second but a third lease of life, having first “appeared” in the pages of Southerly waaaaaay back in 2007.
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My Bloody Valentine, ‘Soon’ and the ideal song length
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Just how long is seven minutes, anyway?
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe and the end of indie
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …