Even though my kind hosts in the ‘Ham let me sleep as late as I wished this weekend, I’m feeling tired. Probably because I took a Bonine today, as I usually do when traveling by air. Tonight C asked why I didn’t enjoy spinning around in a circle. I hope she never experiences the reason […]

Name five things you like a lot that some close relative or significant other did/does not like. This could be food, movies, hobbies, music, sports or whatever springs to mind.
Here are some things that I like that R doesn’t care for:
1. Slow Dying Woman Movies
2. Beets
3. Brussels Sprouts
And vice versa:
4. Honey
5. Techno music
Short and sweet […]

Act I: In Which Our Heroine is an Idiot.
At the breakfast table. RM eats the red Flintstones vitamins because little she-who-is doesn’t like them.
RM: The thing is, these red ones really do taste awful.
R: Yeah. You know, you could just swallow them.
Act II: Sometimes Rosey Grier Can’t Make It All Better.
RM (reading the daily report […]

At my ordination almost four years ago (!!!) I served communion for the first time, with ChaplainMom at my side. So I’m very excited to fly to Southern City Where They Love the Governor, Ooh Ooh Ooh, to attend Seminary Girlfriend’s ordination on Sunday and serve communion with her. Way to go E!
Presbytery Uber-Committee met […]

Some recent sighing over George Clooney at Will Smama’s reminded me that, while my love for The Clooney is still abiding and fierce, I have neglected to report a dream from two nights ago in which Ewan McGregor and I got married. There was no angst over this, no inconvenient spouses or children, just me […]

invisible pain
’til the thin gorge runs crimson:
yep, a paper cut.

Several years ago some friends and I visited a new restaurant that had been getting some good buzz. We were the only ones there. As we left the owner said, “Thanks for being here. This is our last night. Tomorrow we go out of business.” This poem is just a recollection of something that happened […]

Yes, this is blog post number 666.
Today at Church
Today was one of those Days of Snafus. The lay leader forgot the unison prayer of confession and went straight from the silent prayer to the assurance of pardon. Later he forgot to serve the cup to someone waiting at the end of the line with her […]

So I am looking through my files for writing exercises to do in class tomorrow, and I ran across this little thing I wrote for a preaching/poetry class in seminary. Unedited. We had to write something that took place in our mother’s kitchen, and as I recall, it had to incorporate a color and something […]

During Lent here at Suburban Presbyterian Church, we are exploring the creative and liturgical arts, with classes and speakers dealing with storytelling, iconography, dance, visual art, writing, and so on. The theme is “A Beautiful Thing,” inspired by the story of the woman anointing Jesus and his declaration that “She has done a beautiful thing […]

Cary Tennis writes an advice column for Salon.com that is sometimes interesting. Two letters this week have dealt with writing. Today’s letter was from a person who says s/he is invigorated by writing but has a fear of being published. This is part of his reply:
Writing and publishing are two different things. They can be […]