I received A Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd for Christmas. I started reading it the other night - I'll try not to give any spoilers. ...

Yesterday, January 6, was Epiphany. One of my readers - hi Marne! - asked me to delve into Epiphany, and I had planned to do just that...

Today is January 1, so Happy New Year and good riddance to last year! Except Parker was born and, breaking news: Julia and Ben got...

This Sunday is the fourth Sunday in Advent. This week we light the candle of love. I never expected Love to be the hardest for me to...

Today, we light the candle of Joy. What is joy? When I was an Air Force nurse, still young and with a youthful ambition to change the...

Today is the second Sunday in Advent. Tonight at our dinner table we will light the Peace candle. Peace is a sense of tranquility or...

Yesterday was the first Sunday of Advent. Advent is a time of waiting and a time of preparing, both for the birth of Jesus on Christmas....

Here we are - the week before Thanksgiving. We are in the midst of a pandemic, a Constitutional crisis and an economic crisis, but we -...

The election is over - thank goodness. I really wanted to write about it this week - I started to, actually - about how we made it over...

Do you ever wonder what people who went over Niagara Falls in barrels were thinking? I can't imagine anyone thinking that would be a...

When Jesus was asked which commandment is most important, he answered: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with...

I love SNL. This clip aired on Saturday, October 17 (or maybe Sunday, October 18. I saw it on You Tube on Monday, October 19). I hope...

I am writing this on October 12, 2020. It is Indigenous People's Day. I used to call it Columbus Day. I noticed on Twitter that First...

Hallowed be thy name. I know the words. I've been struggling to pray this week. It isn't right to pray that someone will get really sick....

I have been thinking about grace a lot this week. Before I get to that, though, I want to thank you for sticking with me through my posts...

I don't believe very many people have golden calves in their homes. I think we need to look very carefully about what our idols really are.

I had another post started based on AG Barr's outrageous comments comparing lockdowns during a pandemic to slavery but then Ruth Bader...

Mr. Munoz was in crisis of some kind. Now the officer is.

We are just back from vacation. We spent last week at Lake Wallenpaupack in the Poconos. It was a wonderful time with family, and dogs,...

I am a major trendsetter! If I buy a red car, everyone will buy a red car! If I wear decorative sneakers, everyone will wear decorative...