I should not be giddy over the fact that youth and college students from our church are actually friending me on Facebook, but they are and I am. You mean I’m not a drippy adult?
Don’t you love it when you are dreading revising some unpolished piece of cr@p writing and it turns out to be […]

It’s not a very blissful time in the reverendhousehold.
Long story, but we found out that M is also prone to nursemaid’s elbow.
M is not sleeping well in the new room. There. I said it. There are various theories, but honestly, we don’t know why. The only thing that gets her to sleep is rocking. […]

Will the political people please stop calling?!?!?
Will there be any Halloween candy left in the house by the time the trick-or-treaters arrive, or will the pregnant woman have eaten it all? (Rach: we got the CostCo “all chocolate” pack: Reese’s, M&Ms, Butterfinger, Hershey Bar, Baby Ruth, etc.)
How will I end up weaving together Zacchaeus, All […]

plan worship for all-saints’ Sunday, write sermon (I’m preaching on Zacchaeus!)
finish article for Fidelia’s Sisters
work on small grant application due December 31
write and revise Denominational Magazine article due November 1
get a jump on DM article due December 1 because, well you know
National Crankypants Newsletter article
write two book reviews for blog
And that’s just the writing to-do […]

Went to a stimulating day of training sponsored by the National Crankypants transformation team. Heard Emergent Guy (remember him?) and Emergent Gal talk about the church in the 21st century and such.
A few notes:
EGuy said that the emergent churches began not as some hip attempt to reach out to young adults, but to “save […]

Pregnant Woman Driven Insane
Ziploc containers, mismatched lids
believed to be cause
Braxton-Hicks, Insomnia Begin in Earnest
“Here we go again,” woman laments
Sisters Sign Peace Accord,
Acknowledge Each Other’s Right to Exist
Four year old: “She can share my room as long as she’s quiet”
Yet Another Mom Caves to Pestering;
Disney Princess Franchise Celebrates Continued Dominance
“At least it was on sale,” beleaguered […]

So when you take your kid to see The Jungle Book at the local children’s theater, and the opening scene (in which Mowgli’s mom fights the tiger to keep him from eating her baby) makes you tear up…
you know you’re going to have a baby in a few weeks.
Speaking of baby, a friend had a […]

Sermon is DONE. It’s stewardship kickoff—I tried not to get too “Sermon on the Amount” about it.
This is the first sermon I’ve written on Quicksilver—just turned off the Airport and was good to go.
Now I have a little time to play, then R & I pick up the girls and head into town, where they […]

That was my text message to R, in answer to his question, “Will you be home in time for dinner?”
Unfortunately, what my brain thought it was responding to was, “Will you be staying in town for dinner?”
D’oh.
And I have been schooled by R’s saintly patience and good humor about this.
On the upside, I had […]

Item #1: Why typography matters
A bumper sticker:
Jesus Died for Me
and you
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Item #2: Stuck?
I haven’t written anything but random blogs for quite a long time. Is it the spiffy Moleskine that I’m too fussy about messing up? The fact that I’ve written 100 poems (according to my archives) and that milestone is psyching me out? Or […]

So when I feel like I’m doing the pregnancy waddle-step, I try to think of it as a swagger instead. It just makes me feel less frumpy, more “I own the room.” Hey, if menopausal women can have power surges, darnit, I can swagger.
I am better today, but moving slowly and carefully. I can put […]

Eh, not much to say.
I am going through a round of submitting various things for publication. Which feels good, like something I should be disciplining myself to do, because it means setting goals and deadlines and revising. But it also feels like a colossal waste of time because I suck! My writing sucks! Nobody really […]

Quicksilver is my new MacBook Pro 15”. It’s quite speedy.
And it will actually operate while unplugged.
I can watch YouTube in real time, rather than hitting pause and waiting for the clip to download.
And the PCMCIA slot is not bent such that the wireless card won’t fit in it, which doesn’t matter because it has an […]

Marshmallow Pinwheels are really yummy cookies.
So the Viggo dream occurred Saturday night, which was also the night I slept almost 12 hours. Saturday was (supposed to be) our Sabbath day but we remembered the Green Festival was going on downtown, which we’d wanted to do. I agreed, knowing it was a three-day weekend and there […]

Fidelia’s Sisters debuts October 1. Check it out!
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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Miscellaneous
Trader Joe’s Trek Mix with three kinds of nuts, raisins, cranberries, and chocolate chips. This is the kind of thing I would have hated at a younger age, but it’s amazingly good. I am even able to overlook the golden raisins, which have always creeped me out for some reason.
Speaking of nuts, the divine miss […]

Yesterday I told little she-who-is that in exactly one year she would start kindergarten and that mommy would probably cry. She was bemused by this.
Speaking of crying, she has been very sensitive lately. Simple corrections cause little tears to leak out. Which make me feel like a tool. So today my goal is to not […]