Tim Boxer

Joined March 2021

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Tim is UK-based writer of all things family, faith and adventure.

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Mental Millennial - Part 1
Part 1 I sat down and a mental brick wall descended right in front of my double display monitors on my desk. I'd just had another excruciating setback I just couldn't override with mental gymnastics.
By Tim Boxer3 days ago in Psyche
Top Story - December 2023
Money-Saving Guide For ParentsTop Story - December 2023
First, beat up shame and become persistently practical. Then eat healthy for less and save tiny amounts. Share. Find and forage wild food.
By Tim Boxer4 months ago in Families
Is the idea of sin outdated?
The other day, I shared in an authors group my plan to write a book entitled, "How to Never Sin Again" - and did people think it would take?
By Tim Boxer2 years ago in Humans
A Shrinking Manhood
I have just endured ninety days without a hot shower or bath, which means cold showers from 17th January to 17th April - some of the coldest weeks in England.
By Tim Boxer2 years ago in Motivation
Sleep: A Parent's Guide To The Impossible
As a parent with young children, sleep has become what cannabis was to my teenage self - something I dabbled in, but never quite had enough of to make a difference. Like an illicit drug in my subconscious, I know I can't just go to bed whenever I want to, even when I have a craving.
By Tim Boxer2 years ago in Motivation
The Fight
Ashlyn, 20 weeks I move in sync, with my world. With the ebb and the flow, from my home. I float in here,
By Tim Boxer2 years ago in Humans
Maureen And The Shogun
I couldn't imagine why a woman the age of my grandmother, lost in an enormous florescent jacket, was taking deliberate strides towards me.
By Tim Boxer2 years ago in Humans
On The Unpopular Advantages Of Marrying Young
Writing this piece made me nervous. I felt odd, even slightly guilty, for celebrating monogamous marriage as something profoundly good for individuals, families and society. Worse still, that it really might be okay to marry your sweetheart from high school.
By Tim Boxer2 years ago in Humans
Finding courage & clarity through messes you can’t control
Taking control is the shortest path to a feeling of contentment and peace... until another human shows up. This other human has their own will (shock, horror) that is different to yours (hooray), and they want to try it out in the garden of your life!
By Tim Boxer3 years ago in Families
Top Story - September 2021
How a rap artist who died of Covid impacted my life.Top Story - September 2021
After googling a particular track by rap artist 'Ty', I was shocked to discover he died of Covid last year, aged 47. I've never followed him that closely and the last time I listened to him was 18 months ago. But yesterday, I found myself wanting to submerge into the steady thumps and flicks of a track I couldn't even remember the name of. I found it - Let's Start - and with it the sad news.
By Tim Boxer3 years ago in Beat
Wait On You | Maverick City
I’ve been trying to work out why the first six or seven times I watched this video it reduced me to a blubbering mess. Each time I felt it penetrating into something largely untapped but desperate, in my soul, and I think it is this: to see my own generation defying how we are commonly identified (as narcissists), and leading *each other* in an act of abandon to Yahweh.
By Tim Boxer3 years ago in Humans
Cariba's Braids
The propeller wash is knocking back my braids as I step onto the baking tarmac runway. Mum, Dad and Missy are behind me, but they are silent.
By Tim Boxer3 years ago in Humans