The Journey

The path of love is not easy to walk Littered with noise, cluttered objects, peevishness, annoyances To walk along a forest path, hushed...

I have been both a setter and a spiker. These are volleyball terms, but I'm talking UU evangelism here. In volleyball, a setter "...

This morning, I was supposed to be visiting my friend Smiley. But on Sunday, she slipped into a coma and died. She was an older lady and ha...

About a month ago, I received a postcard in the mail. Our city ballet is pre-selling tickets for The Nutcracker. The older two have seen it...

“Jesus and I agreed to see other people, but that don’t mean we don’t still talk from time to time.” – Lafayette, True Blood

Leaders of the nation's largest Lutheran church voted Friday to allow sexually active gays and lesbians in committed relationships to se...

Kids 1, 2, and 3 go back to school Monday. If all goes well, then kid 4 goes back to her two-day school on Tuesday. And Wednesday, I go to...

Well, I just completed my first not-someone-I-knew memorial service. Thanks to the generous sharing of materials, emails, phone calls and me...

I have been thinking about weddings, since The Husband and I are about to celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary. I believe in marriage. I ...

Apropos of nothing, a dear, albeit cantankerous, friend demanded to know why I say “Happy Sabbath” on my facebook page. I was a little start...

I'm doing a memorial service next week, not anyone I know. Humbly requesting your services, readings, helpful hints* and the like. Plea...

Goodbye, Rev. Tim . Your comments, your posts, your insight, will be greatly missed here at The Journey. Peace to your family.

A little over three years ago, I wrote on my thoughts about prayer . I can't say that my beliefs have changed exactly. I still have a h...

Masasa started a conversation about call on Ms. Kitty's blog . I can't say when my first call happened -- there were quiet urges, p...

There's a generation of grown-up teens feeling sad today. They call us Gen X now, but for a while, we were the ignored generation, in te...

Through a strange planetary alignment (or maybe just coincidence), two separate old friends of mine came to town and I got to see one last n...

My father is a great lover of poetry. The wording of that is specific. I cannot say he is only a lover of great poetry, though he does lov...

My friend, Witch Goddess, "whispered" in a feral cat, on the "catch, spay, and release" plan. "This cat is lactati...

I agree with Eric Holder that we're so afraid to talk about racism, we miss out on helpful conversations. So I'll throw out an inne...

I had an appointment with a dermatologist this morning. Two suspicious mole-looking things. I have to confess ... I should have gone a lot...