The Journey

 Random thoughts on it all * I wondered if I would get emotional when my head was shaved.  Not at all.  I was the first to go and it was s...

Supposedly Luther once wrote, " I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer."  Well, I have s...

One week from right-now-this-second, I will be bald. It would be disingenuous to act like this hasn't affected me at all. Okay ... it ...

At my seminary, classes are done in complete blocks.  So, rather than a 3 hour class meeting for one hour MWF, it meets for 3 hours, once a ...

Emily:  ... Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute? Stage Manager:  No -- Saints and poets maybe -...

The Rev. Christana Wille McKnight wrote a guest post on the uugrowth blog and presented a workshop on the subject at GA 2010.  I wasn't...

Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood? In your neighborhood? In your neighborhood? Say, who are the people in your neighborhood? T...

We have sacred cows in Unitarian Universalism, and right now, I believe the one treated with the most reverence is the concept of "karm...

Tomorrow, Little Warrior starts kindergarten. I am indulging in some weeping, and watching old videos, in the perhaps vain hope that I wil...

For Ogre and anyone else who might be interested in Shaving the Way to a Cure, from afar: http://www.stbaldricks.org/about-us/faq/#virtual...

I'm going bald. Not slowly.  What I mean is, on September 25, I am going to have my head shaved to raise money for the St. Baldrick...

So the Blogger Survey questions are going around again, and I don't think I answered them the first time ...  Why do you blog? What go...

MonkeyMind and Celestial Lands have shared their favorite Peter Mayer songs, the ones that have affected them deeply. I love both songs ...

Why do I live? Last week, I was at a UU summer conference with a few hundred of my bestest friends.  Gentle Giant, a member of my home chu...

A week ago, I visited one of the abandoned places of the empire, Turley, Oklahoma. In the heart of Turley, literally and figuratively, is U...

Three weeks away from home.  One week in the mountains, one in the desert, and one in a sea of Unitarian Universalists. The Husband was wi...

"You need to post about the last day," both Mama Lizard Eater and The Husband have told me. God had a swag bag for me, some love...

Lizard Eater is on vacay right now, but just wanted to put out a request into the universe: Please stop the meme of "only people who c...

Sunday, July 18 Moments of Grace 4 years ago, I said to The Husband, “Our vacations are always going to where family is.  We need to find...