In the last year I've been doing a lot of work with women. I run a girls-group for young women and girls for a youth organisation, and I...

There’s this song that I really really like. It talks about this Debbie whose dreams went out the door… when she turned 24. What happened...

Trigger Warning! Grief. I thought I wasn't going to have an article to write this Christmas. It was expected to be about boxes and...

Books have a way of finding you at the right time. It feels like the Universe just knows… October and November have been physically,...

I wrote this essay as a formative assignment in the first year of my part-time MA Applied Anthropology & Community & Youth Work. The...

Arts in the Streets has been three amazing days of running around. It’s never easy to organise events. One evening is okay. One day is...

DEIS has been around for 13 years. DEIS UK has been around for 2 years. Young people love our projects. Organisations, funders, and...

I have no idea how old I was when I first heard blink-182 - What’s My Age Again. What I do remember, is that 23 felt aeons into the...

I have a strange relationship with poetry. I don’t usually go out of my way to find poetry, but it has a way of reaching me - on the...

This experience was about novelty. Novelty, which is not easy to find after seven years of projects, learning, and development, but it’s...

One note before the text This is my first Anthropology essay. It was a formative assessment so I didn’t get a mark on it, I just got...

Writing my daily short Muddy Shoes posts, I’ve been reflecting on everything that happened this year as it happened. As much as I enjoy...

This story was written on the 17th of December at artFix after a really fun eco-art workshop hosted by Nan and Van. I was never a crafty...

If I ever forget why I love youth work as much as I do, please, someone, remind me of this week. Send me this article, send me my Muddy...

*Today I wear yellow to show young people how they feel matters.* It is Mental Health Awareness Day (10th of October) and @youngmindsuk...

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There’s always SOMETHING with this project. It’s always an adventure, but only behind the scenes. Come the day of the event, everything...

Today DEIS celebrates its 12-year anniversary, and I celebrate 6 years since I joined DEIS. Basically, I've been here for half the life...

Growing up is a trap, a lie, a hoax. It’s one of those capitalist pieces of #### where they tell you that growing up is cool and awesome,...

I absolutely loved this book!!! So much, in fact, that I asked @jeanine.celine to take a super bookstagram-ish picture of it. Her Dark...

This is a test. I want to see what the link looks like. It's for my novel. I could delete this after I see what the link looks like, but...

This story is not currently available in English on the blog, but you can find it in the Greenwich Anthology 2022!

This story is not currently available in English on the blog, but you can find it in the Greenwich Anthology 2022!

It’s been three years since I made my very first post on this blog, in a hammock, outside the Baia Mare Youth Centre. Three years! Can...

* Youth Worker taking a break to leave the Writer read a little text she wrote, Baia Mare Youth Centre, Write It Out!, 2022 * This is...

I started writing this article when I was at the youth centre, in That Moment. The Moment when, after the workshop, everything’s back in...

I’m not sure if what I’m going to say here will fall under the popular or unpopular opinions on Sally Rooney. If you read the London...

I wasn’t necessarily planning to write something today. People of all ages and genders are dying on other parts of this planet, even mere...

A very Merry Christmas And a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear The original Celine Dion version, the John Lennon...

Christmas has always been a big deal for me, but I have a confession to make - I didn’t feel the Christmas Spirit too much in the last...

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I have so much work to get done, but I can’t continue anything until I write this. A few weeks ago I submitted two short stories for the...

1 Lucy slammed the door of her bedroom. Her life was flipped upside down when her Mum decided to quit her HR job and become a full-time...

I was really scared and anxious this week. I won’t hide this fact. We managed to keep everything under control, and came up with...

Today we celebrate 11 years of DEIS and today we submitted the documents to register DEIS UK. We tried at midnight, but apparently, the...

21. What does that even mean? 21 and going through what I discovered is called ‘quarter-life crisis’ - I think. As a kid, I couldn’t wait...

I am writing this here just to get it off my chest. And maybe it will help someone else get through an episode of ‘progress anxiety’. I...

J: Who are you and what do you do? B: I’m Bea and I walk in many different shoes. For this interview, I’m a writer & blogger, but I’m...

It’s 2 years since the summer day when, after finishing my final exams, I was officially launching B-Side Blog from my hammock at the...

Consider this today’s #AdventuresOfTheMuddyShoes. It’s the first day of summer and Romania (along with some other countries) is...

What’s that on my left shoulder blade? A tattoo!? 😮🤯 Yep. It’s a tattoo. And the more I think about it the more meanings I find for it....

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Poetry is random words you mean to write on paper and that other people try to make sense of. Modern poetry, that is… Or… … all poetry,...

Did you know… that today we are celebrating International Women’s Rights Day? So today is not just about Women and how amazing we are,...

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I should be working on my Redrafting Journal for Short Story Writing or doing research for my next essay on Mrs Dalloway. Am I doing any...

Dear Blog, This was the article I posted around this time, last year: I was not ready for 2020. And I think no one really was. It’s hard...

The First Noel I woke up inside a truck surrounded by bags of all sizes filled with drugs by all kinds. A stranger with piercings and...

Have yourself a merry little Christmas Arteus pulled into one of those truck parking lots and while I was finding the strength to get up,...