We’ve got an e-mail list of friends from college that has been going strong for some 13 years. We’ve gone through undergrad, graduate school, new jobs and relocations, marriages, and kids together. We’ve had our share of tragedy–we’re getting to the age where we’ve had a couple of parent deaths as well. And so it […]

What can I say? I spent much of last week listening to an Indigo Girl up close and personal, and “eavesdropping” as she and her dad talked with one another about the spirituality of music and the power of song to transform the world, and it was wonderful; but two and a half hours of […]

Three years ago I took an amazing class called “The Preacher and the Poet.” We read a lot of poetry, played around with sermons, and wrote silly impromptu creative writing assignments. This one’s been on my mind lately; we had to write a real or fictional story of a family member meeting someone famous.
PastorG is […]

Tomorrow afternoon my mother flies in to spend the weekend with little she-who-is.
Tomorrow evening R and I drive 160 miles to Philadelphia and spend the night.
After a relaxed Saturday of sightseeing, we see U2 in concert that evening.
Immediately after the concert we drive home.
The next day is Pentecost, a “high holy day” in the church.
While […]

(You can really tell lately how bad I am at titles… really, I suck at them. Ah well.)
I have been having the coolest week. I am attending a week-long lecture/workshop with Don Saliers (of Emory Univ./Candler School of Theology) and Emily Saliers (of the Indigo Girls). The workshop centers around their recent book, which you […]

Hubby and I went with some clergy friends last night to see David Wilcox in concert. My face hurts from grinning the entire evening. He preached about 35 sermons in those two hours. Deep, good stuff. Filled with hope that’s not cheap and sentimental. If you don’t know him, get to know him!
He seems to […]

Closer to Home
This is a lovely place that is hard to leave
And there’s a loneliness we will always grieve.
So you give what you can, only take what you need,
And hope your heart will know what your eyes can’t see.
When I was a child, I thought like a child,
And I still feel like a child sometimes.
And […]

What’s on your bookshelf?
Twelve Moons, poems by Mary Oliver
Stitch ‘n Bitch Nation, Debbie Stoller
Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx, Heidi Neumark
If Grace is True: Why God Will Save Every Person by Gulley and Mulholland
Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood, Peri and Moses, eds.I think I need some fiction. Any recommendations?
What’s in […]