The Journey

A year ago today, Little Warrior got her face painted, and played carnival games, and wore a costume, and trick or treated. And then we left...

So, lotsa stuff happening, everything braided, woven together. There are some people who can live more compartmentalized lives, but for me,...

I have written about this before: the proposition that having lived in the world of childhood cancer with my daughter, that I will be a bet...

Or "Kids Understand More than You Think They Do." Little Warrior is getting her memories back from when she was on treatment. She...

I went to Colorado last week, leaving behind The Husband, the munchkins, and my mother-in-love, who came up to watch all of them and do moun...

And as such, it affects how I think of things. Things like diversity. I read that at this past General Assembly, "(Rev. Mark) Morriso...

I must get back to blogging, as I'm having a backup of ideas that are making my head tight and my hat small. But not this week, as in a...

My friend the Hysteric Cleric posted on Facebook an article Molly Ivins wrote about Texas . That made me remember that this summer, on the ...

There will be nothing poetic or even vaguely inspirational about this post. It's a simple check-in for our home viewers. (And if you h...

I have been doing a prayer bead practice, based on the one outlined by Erik Walker Wikstrom in Simply Pray . I enjoy it; it's a good w...

I'll admit it. I was a soap watcher. My grandmother watched Guiding Light, my mother watched Guiding Light, and after getting hooked o...

Okay, friends. I have my handful of podcasts by my favorite preachers* that I listen to religiously (yuk yuk). They go with me on my commu...

Reverend Erik Walker Wikstrom addresses some of the things I am struggling with on the subject of evil. Go read it; it's good. The topi...

What do an agnostic, a conservative Jew, and a UU seminarian have in common? Well ... a class. The first two are two old men who are attend...

I want a bigger tent. I want a tent where I can point out, as Rev. Christine did , that we are all at a spot on the agnostic spectrum withou...

Last week, I walked into the classroom for the first day of my Old Testament class. Professor wasn't there, but two older, male student...

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...