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Had a nice visit in Keillor-ville meeting the little nephew. He is a sweetheart and we are now ready to meet BB. R & I also changed our first boy diaper together. Totally different geography there.
They are a peace-filled family, for the most part, but I also […]

Well friends, as I prepare for the birth of BB, it’s time to simplify life, step back from the Friday Five, and let one of the other capable and creative RevGals take the helm. It’s been a great almost 17 months of co-hosting the F5, but it’s time to say goodbye… so here’s my swan […]

So I receive a weekly e-mail from an organization that provides downloadable Sunday School curriculum. The e-mails include “what’s new this week.” Here’s what this week’s said:
Sex trafficking is available for pre-order now!

Wow. And they call themselves The Thoughtful Christian…

I wanted to respond to Saying Grace’s comment about yesterday’s presbytery meeting, but decided to do it separately since the response got long, and that post was all, like, idealistic and nice and stuff. Rant ahead, proceed with caution.
(Non-Presbyterians, I’m sorry for the inside baseball, but it’s hard to explain and be concise)
So we have […]

An article for National Crankypants Presbytery’s monthly newsletter:
This week the MacArthur Foundation named 24 new MacArthur Fellows as recipients of their so-called “genius grants.” These fellowships were awarded to a medieval historian, an education strategist, an opera singer, a poet, a water quality engineer, a spider-silk biologist, and a blues musician, among others.
The award is […]

The Mind of the Four Year Old
RM: [smiling] OK C, would you like the blue washcloth or the blue washcloth?
C: [smiling] The blue washcloth.
[RM hands over the washcloth]

Wait for it…
C: NO! I wanted the OTHER blue one!
OK, that I did laugh at. But she was also laughing.

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Adventures in Health Care, Part I
Tonight I received a […]

I recently read a poem (which for the life of me I can’t find; I really need Google-for-real-life) in which the speaker talked about how much he hated it when adults laughed at him for stuff he did as a kid. You know what I’m talking about? I’m not talking about laughing when kids are […]

So yesterday’s sabbath time was lovely, with a side of not so good. We went on a family outing to a nearby farm to go apple picking. We learned a lot in the process:

“Field trips” are a fine sabbath activity, provided they aren’t an every week thing. They are nourishing in their own ways, but […]

I have a sermon to write and am feeling stuck in this &^%$#! text that is giving me no place to hide. Darn Word of God.
But then along comes the F5 to provide me with a brief respite. This one is about clutter:
1. Are you a hoarder or a minimalist?
Minimalist, married to a moderate hoarder. […]

Tomorrow I am 75% through with this pregnancy. Ten weeks left, give or take some indeterminate number of days.
We have exactly one baby outfit, but that’s OK, since we have no chest of drawers in which to put baby clothes. And no place to put a chest of drawers. The dining room?
The midwife gave me […]

Mr. RM to C: (while looking at a book) Which dress of Cinderella’s do you like better, the pink one or the blue one?
C: The blue one:

RM: The pink one’s rather sweet, but those beads Do Not Go:

I’m off in my pumpkin carriage to an overnight training/retreat at our presbytery’s conference center. While I’m gone […]

Check out that bluetooth, baby. I am All About the Handsfree.
from Simpsonize Me, courtesy of Real Live Preacher.

In what universe is it appropriate to ask someone, “Were you this big last time you were pregnant?”
Never mind that that idiot comment was outnumbered 10 to 1 by the “You look great!” comments.
And in case you’re wondering: retired female, in the greeting line after church.
Of course I stared at her blankly.
The best, most wicked […]

I will probably keep a log of random thoughts and impressions as this experiment goes on. Here is the first installment, with at times excruciating and mind-numbing details:

First, I changed the name of the sabbath ministry thingy on this blog to make it less googleable.
We had our potluck tonight. We had about 9 individuals or […]