Jeremiah 1:1-10
1The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, 2to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3It came also in the days of King Jehoiakim […]

Because after that I am going to bed…

I finished the sermon for Sunday. Now we’re working on getting the clip I need from Sorcerer’s Stone put on my laptop. Having an in-house computer guy is so handy, though right about now I think he’s wishing he were a shoe salesman or something.
I am SO ready […]

(That’s half birthday)
The divine miss m is 18 months old today.
You are our trickster child, our joker, our adventurer who stands on wastebaskets beneath open second-story windows, who has already been to the ER, who makes messes and blows kisses. You were the one who kept me guessing in the last weeks of pregnancy, with […]

A parishioner gave me this marvelous little invention:

“My yoke is over easy, and my toast is light.”

The Good Humor man drove down our street last Friday and I’d promised C that we’d get a treat from him sometime, so we bought an overpriced popsicle shaped like a Spiderman head (with two gumballs for eyes) and a Klondike bar.
My contribution to Freakonomics is to wonder whether the overprogramming of today’s children has […]

We saw Ocean’s Thirteen last night. Very enjoyable. Of course I am one of the minority who liked Ocean’s Twelve. My standards are low, I guess. Plus Albert Finney looks like my dad so I love anything he does.
It was good to have the guys back in Vegas for this one. Many reviewers were quick […]

From the RevGalBlogPals:

1. Favorite summer food(s) and beverage(s)
Foods: I am loving Breyer’s fruit bars right now. All natural, not too large for the girls to handle, 40 calories, refreshing.
Homemade ice cream.
Guacamole.
Gazpacho sounds good to me.
That broccoli salad with the bacon.
I could live the rest of my life without eating watermelon.
Beverage: Margarita, though not this summer.
I […]

There’s a rumor that persists in sermons and churchy articles that Nelson Mandela said the following in his inaugural address as president of South Africa: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…”
It’s actually a nice enough sentiment, but friends, he did NOT […]

We just spent our first evening in urgent care with M. I forgot to ask for my frequent flyer card before we left.
I had back-to-back commitments this evening and discovered a voice mail on my cell as I was driving to meeting #2. (Damn vibrate mode!) M fell down the stairs at bedtime, hitting her […]

We had Father’s Day weekend, since Sunday is such a big work day. The girls and I made a simple breakfast for R, then we went to the farmer’s market, napped and puttered. I had bought him a cookbook with slow-cooker recipes, which I used to make a sinful but yummy beef stroganoff. C helped […]

Always a wonderful topic, courtesy of the RevGals:

1. Fiction: what kind, detective novels, historical stuff, thrillers, romance????
I haven’t read a lot of fiction of late. Poems, because they can be read in small doses. I guess I would say I read contemporary fiction, stuff like Three Junes and The Curious Incident of the Dog in […]

Though, how does one define “random”?
It is a challenge to find things I haven’t talked about here before. I think I was mostly successful:
1. I don’t have perfect pitch, but I do have a strange cousin to it: whereas I cannot pull a specific note out of thin air, I will sing a piece […]

At dinner:
C: Are all the stores closed?
RM: Most are, but some are open 24 hours—all day and all night. Like some grocery stores and drugstores.
C: Those store helpers must be tired!
RM: Well some work during the day and some work at night. In fact, you know Uncle K?
C: Yeah.
RM: He’s a police officer who works […]

Read part 1 here.
Presby-retreat and Back Again

Thursday night we mainly got settled and met up with some of our friends. I found out the unfortunate news about NotShyChiRev’s father, who passed away the day before. NSCR had been scheduled to lead the retreat. Head of Staff was planning to fill in, but he too was […]