The Journey

1 of: Antagonists in the Church: How to Identify and Deal With Destructive Conflict 1 of: Never Call Them Jerks 1 of: Well-Intentioned Drag...

Today, the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it is probably not just random coincidence that my web-surfing took me to two great earlier pos...

...because the springy-toilet-paper-middle-thingy has been purloined. Little Warrior has taken it for her own. It is, apparently, the great...

For the the September UU Blog Carnival, Rev. Sean asked for submissions to the question: “What gets you through the hard night?” More spec...

I just agreed to go back in the pulpit. September 17. Huh.

Right now I am in a no man's land because the future will affect what this period of my life comes to be seen as. Path A: Little Warrio...

I look down sometimes, like when she's sleeping after a long day of wreaking havoc, and I still can't believe it all. I mean, she...

Not only is Little Warrior a mean-ass drunk, she's the kind of drunk who says, "Watch me climb that radio tower!" This was dis...

Yesterday was The Husband's and my 16th wedding anniversary. We got married the summer before my senior year in college, for no other re...

Someone visited my blog today by searching for +shot +tastes +like +chocolate. Isn't that lovely? I'm glad about the folks that fi...

Kristina Collins just blogged about Mattel coming out with a breast cancer Barbie . She reports that she and other writers on the Young Sur...

I don’t go to church to worship. At least, not in the traditional sense. This is the conclusion I came to, after a comment by PeaceBang . ...

Forget “the elevator speech.” Aack! The emperor has no clothes! That sacred rite in Unitarian Universalist circles, The Elevator Speech, a...

In order to not see God as a capricious, mean being, I had to let go of my vision of a personally-involved God. Ironically, it was not becau...

I met his eyes as he crossed the parking lot tonight An automatic smile that I always do, without thinking I turned back to strapping my kid...

The thing about vacations is, if you do them right, they're really a vacation from reality, aren't they? Well, for us, it was pretty...

With 30 lbs of roasted New Mexican peppers, 10 lbs of the best German sausage you'll ever eat, a suitcase full of clean clothes (thanks ...

After spending a marvelous, wonderful week with all my friends at "UU Camp," I am spending this week with the munchkins and my par...

I'm on my way To the freedom land I'm on my way To the freedom land ... A vacation I didn't know we could take! "Church ca...

Tonight, we went to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. Little Warrior took her "survivor lap" with all the other s...