I’m good. You? (On not being a mover or a shaker)
Look, it is the middle of the night, and I might come back later and delete this. Or maybe not. I have been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be called and/or sent. For the past fifteen...
View ArticleFrom Another Time
It is Valentine’s Day in about 20 minutes. I’m still up because I have this lingering cough that has gotten my sleep/waking pattern all “kerflumple”, to use a word my kids and I made up when they were...
View ArticleUp Close And In Person
I did an indulgent and (for me) unprecedented thing yesterday. I went to a crowded place, sat on an uncomfortable chair, then stood in a line to meet somebody famous. I have the autograph to prove it....
View ArticleFeeling All Of The Things
Today has been one of those days. I wrote a Facebook status earlier today in which I mentioned “feeling all of the things”, which is a saying I attribute to John Green, bestselling author of The Fault...
View ArticleHappy Time
“That doesn’t look like anything, but don’t throw it out.” We were standing in my parent’s newly cleaned out and organized garage last Sunday, early in the day to avoid the...
View ArticleIt’s Like This
Recently I was having a conversation with some people in which I was asked to give an assessment of a local ecclesiastical structure. I knew that my assessment was going to get ‘thrown in the hopper’...
View ArticleChristmas. On my own terms.
I’ve spent the last few Christmases celebrating on my own terms. But it wasn’t always like that. As a child I celebrated however my parents did. We weren’t in a church culture that included services...
View ArticleThe Good Old Days
I was musing the other day with a blogging friend of mine about the good old days of blogging. I’m not sure if blogging has really been around long enough to have good old days, but we were both in...
View ArticleRemembering Our Future
I’m not preaching this week, but a few years ago I had this to say about this week’s RCL gospel text: (Note: The artifact I describe in the first paragraph was not there anymore when I looked this past...
View ArticleRubbing Me the Right Way*
*This post is about therapeutic massage. If you came here hoping for something salacious, I am not your blogger, and maybe WordPress is not the platform for you. Also, ew. As I was saying… I had a...
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