The Journey

I agree with Peacebang about giving a church that you are serving as a professional, total "blog silence" (like radio silence). (...

A break from our normal programming. I just felt the urge to share with you that right now, an 11 year old boy, an almost-5 year old girl, a...

You do know about the Back to Egypt Committee , right? I assure you, your church has one. I just hope you're not on it. If you google ...

I knew this felt familiar! After four pregnancies, you would have thought I'd have recognized it sooner. "The round ligaments surr...

The Weight of the World Men and women of th...

1. Hate authority. Assume that the minister and anyone who is on the Board is simply power-hungry and they want to strip you of all that y...

Apologies for temporarily locking down my blog. Our church is (you may have surmised) going through an extremely contentious time and I dis...

What does it mean, that our church is having a knock-down, drag-out over creating a "bad behavior" policy? This is as funny as whe...

Lizard Eater needs your help. If you have a policy for "bad behavior" at your church, do you think it's good, bad, unnecessary...

She is two years old today. What a difference between this year and last . Classify these as good times. Good times. -- Willie Nelson

Okay, so my seminary story. First day of class. Small class, about 10 of us, around a table. Professor asks everyone to take out their Bib...

Okay, that's a little grandiose. Rather than enlightenment, sub in "interesting spiritual ideas." On the Lizardpod right now:...

Not about his death. I mean, not that it makes me happy. I'm just not mourning him. But I feel sad about the person he was. Because I...

UU Church bans plastic bottles NancyDREuu brought this to my attention. I'm passionately ambivalent. On one hand, it's great to se...

While we're on week o'snark, can anyone help me come up with a UU drinking game? One that would apply to most churches? To begin: *...

Thank you to Chalice Chick , who has afforded me the opportunity to write about the difference between pediatric and adult cancers. It’s cer...

A friend just alerted me to this. I am laughing with incredulity. From livestrong.org: "The Lance Armstrong Foundation is a registered...

More importantly, kids are cancer survivors, too. I'm too pissed to be snarky. YAY, cancer and living with cancer is getting lots of pre...

Just joy. CLEAR SCANS. An extra heaping spoonful of gratitude this time ... on Friday, they did her chest CT, then her abdominal MRI ... the...

(In honor of MakingChutney's Week O' Snark .) No One Should Celebrate Any Holidays You shouldn't celebrate Valentines Day becaus...