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My career as a teacher began in the late 1970s. I’ve taught for forty years and know first-hand how this profession has drastically changed, from being respected, to being spit on. Is that what our country is all about? Is that what learning is all about? Once when respect for… Read More
This essay is the farthest in a little solar system of essays roughly circling (but utterly different from) the book "The Dawn of Everything." Each essay (or planet) can be visited independently, without knowing anything about the gravitational center. The series begins with 1) Life, Death and Extinction; 2) What… Read More

Essay / Non-Fiction

September 10, 2023

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Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

And surely there's nowhere else I'd rather be! Read More
In a post-apocalypse world, a teenage boy dreams of returning to the devastated surface of the Earth. With his new friend – half human, half robot – they make their move. Read More
The world is a crazy place, so if we’re going to engage with it successfully then maybe we need to think outside the box – be a bit crazy ourselves! This book brings together unapologetic dreams of utopia, hopes that we can discover enchantment in our everyday lives and explanations… Read More
In which a late night visitor leads to adventures in socially-engaged art. This story now forms part of a book and is available as a paperback. Just search for ANOTHER PUDDING IS POSSIBLE BY TOM WALLACE on Amazon. Read More

Reads: 213

Comments: 1

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Just a moment in time I experienced that hasn’t left my mind till I wrote it out on paper and put it into the world. This is a scene / short story portraying the struggle and strength it takes to grow out of someone that never fully reciprocated feelings for… Read More
In which strange happenings on public transport lead to thoughts about trust and how we might seek to change our neighbourhoods and our nations. This story now forms part of a book and is available as a paperback. Just search for ANOTHER PUDDING IS POSSIBLE BY TOM WALLACE on Amazon. Read More
A poem about friendship. Read More
A Glasgow woman just wanting to go to bingo sparks a whole debate about local and national politics! This story now forms part of a book and is available as a paperback. Just search for ANOTHER PUDDING IS POSSIBLE BY TOM WALLACE on Amazon. Read More
In which the author offers tea and cake to a distraught friend and considers the link between small and large-scale compassion. This story now forms part of a book and is available as a paperback. Just search for ANOTHER PUDDING IS POSSIBLE BY TOM WALLACE on Amazon. Read More
in which strange encounters in a sauna lead to thoughts on wild body, wild mind, wild soul…! This story now forms part of a book and is available as a paperback. Just search for ANOTHER PUDDING IS POSSIBLE BY TOM WALLACE on Amazon. Read More
A paddy field leads to the overthrow of capitalism… Okay, well, perhaps not yet! This story now forms part of a book and is available as a paperback. Just search for ANOTHER PUDDING IS POSSIBLE BY TOM WALLACE on Amazon. Read More
You'll me amazed to find what we can do. My poem. Read More
In which the author uses biscuits to quieten his father - and a particular biscuit incident leads to thoughts on dissenting voices! This story now forms part of a book and is available as a paperback. Just search for ANOTHER PUDDING IS POSSIBLE BY TOM WALLACE on Amazon. Read More

Poem / True Confessions

July 12, 2023

Reads: 64

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

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Tags: change, humans, betray

Why do some people get better with age whilst others seem to get worse? It's a tough call, to try to figure this one! This story now forms part of a book and is available as a paperback. Just search for ANOTHER PUDDING IS POSSIBLE BY TOM WALLACE on Amazon. Read More
Change in our values as circumstances change. Read More
This was the scary day of my life that changed my life forever. Read More

Tags: fear, change

A warning to the unsuspecting young whippersnappers out there . . . take a lesson from experience, and learn . . . . Read More
Sometimes roots must be pulled to save a tree whose heart is disenchanted. Read More
Some books are difficult to describe and this is one of them. It would be fair to say that “Blasé Eight” is an ensemble piece which primarily follows eleven people from different walks of life with five stories which initially seem unrelated. But, that wouldn’t quite be it. One could… Read More

Poem / Poetry

April 21, 2023

This poem is about change. I wrote it a couple years ago. Read More

Tags: change

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