Just one of the many sites we will explore with our children this weekend. Looking forward to being with family and experiencing a lush and humid 75 degrees with sunny skies.
See you in a few days.

…Which was not so much this time. The last weekend there we had highs in the 50s. But we still had fun.
We drove overnight both ways. It’s a brutal way to go, but then again I don’t think being in the car two days is any better—it’s about 16 hours of travel including stops. R […]

This blog is nothing if not a place to put my larks and obsessions. Here’s my latest:
I am addicted to the WaPo Travel section, and especially enjoy their annual photo contest, the 2009 results of which are here.
I was drawn to two things: one, the winning picture was by a 16-year-old, whose parents take her […]

Got back at 10:30 last night after driving all day. Poor M got carsick a whopping three times. By the end we had it down to a science though—moved her from the way back to the middle, strategically placed grocery bag. Note to self: look into Dramamine for future trips. But the kids were amazing. […]

Still here.
We’re getting ready to leave on Saturday for State with Rocky Coast. We haven’t been there since the divine miss M was a five-month-old teething maniac. Who insisted on getting up for the day at 4:45 a.m. In a cottage in which there was someone sleeping in every available room. Good times, that you […]

R took this photo… it’s a very common sight in the rear-view mirror these days…

A car photo seems appropriate for my “see ya later” post… I’m off to the Motherland for the women’s conference. Am I ready? NO. But it will come together.
Today was my seventh Pentecost at SPC. Pentecost, 2003 was my first Sunday […]

Next Wednesday through Saturday I’ll be back in the Motherland, at Gigantic Presbyterian Educators’ Conference.
Anyone else going to be there? It’s been too long since I’ve had a good blogger meetup.

Gonna go worship at the Church of Disney. See you in a week!

Wow, a week without blogging! Is there anyone still around here?
SBJ and I had a good week in Midwestern City in Two States. He slept poorly (extremely poorly) at night, but was sunny and easygoing during the day—which is better than the converse, I suppose. He put up with being passed from person to person, […]

I leave tomorrow for several days of study leave, with my clergy assistant SBJ in tow. Now that I’ve got the papers done and the bags (mostly) packed, I am now super excited to see NotShyChiRev, Texas Clergypal, will smama, apstraight, Laidback Clergypal, Seminary Galpal, and several non-pseudonymed folk.
I won’t have internet access except for […]

Please continue to vote on the spoonerism thread o’whimsy. I am pulling for fest breed, since I know nothing about shiites, nerdy or otherwise.
I had spiritual direction today, and here is why a good spiritual director is such a great thing:
One of the segments of the day-long pilgrimage on Iona took us from the top […]

a draft

the ripe glow between the rooftops
is a wedge of strawberry pie.
always hungry, i throw on a sweater
and pad toward this mid-evening delicacy.
i step straddling over a wire fence,
scramble up the backyard hill,
ready to feast; oh! it was a mirage,
not a sliver of thing to be gobbled up,
but a long roll of wool
carded clean and […]

As you well know, I am just back from a lovely time of pilgrimage in the isle of Iona, “cradle of Scottish Christianity.” It has provided much food for thought, to say the least, and so, to keep the pilgrim mojo going:
1. Have you ever been on a pilgrimage? (however you choose to define the […]

unrevised
i’m home, but
i don’t want the pilgrimage to end,
so in the plod of rush hour,
i look around and see not
minivans adorned with little league stickers, not
hummers that make me furious, not
steel machines inhaling their fossil fuels and
blowing code orange smoke rings,
but the people inside, pilgrims on the way
to their sacred everyday places,
they are modest as […]

See you on the Hogwarts Express! I’ll buy the first round of chocolate frogs and Bertie Botts.

We rolled into the driveway at 1 a.m. C heard us come upstairs and was ready with a sleepy hug and kiss. M woke up early this morning and R went to get her; it seemed to take a while to dawn on her who it was. But she was awake enough by the time […]

Just couldn’t resist poking in for one more check-in/update. My main objective was to read the daily e-updates on the girls, which the grandmothers are e-mailing to each other and to us (for reading when we get back, but who can wait?). We really miss them. A lot.
Apparently C is sitting in R’s chair at […]

So this’ll be quick and hopefully not too riddled with typos (why do they put the @ sign there?)
I am in the internet cafe in the Columba Hotel here on the island, for just a few more minutes. Then it’s off to do some exploring.
Our weather has been incredible. While much of England is underwater, […]

So last night I was stomping around the kitchen, which I do from time to time. R often thinks I am stomping in judgment. (Can one stomp judgmentally? I’m afraid one can.) Often I am whirling around in that “How did we let it get so bad” cleaning frenzy.
Last night was one of those […]

First, thanks for the feedback on the “whaaaa?!” post. Having received confirmation that I’m not way off base, it’s only fair to take it down and speak to the person directly.
We are just about packed. I have a new raincoat with liner, a loaner cross-shoulder bag (two, actually, from two clergy friends—maybe I’ll bring both; […]