Category Archives: holidays

January First: 2011 Resolution Update

Posted on January 1, 2012 by

I quit giving resolution updates several months back, but it seems appropriate to revisit them one more time before I move on to my resolutions for 2012.  Resolution haters and cynics, move toward the exits now. 2011 Resolutions (you can … Continue reading →

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2011 in review (My WordPress blog report)

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 18,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading →

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For Christmas Morning: Victory

Posted on December 25, 2011 by

Maybe my favorite Christmas poem, by Elizabeth Jennings. Victory Down to that littleness, down to all that Crying and hunger, all that tiny flesh And flickering spirit – down the great stars fall, Here the great kings bow. Here the … Continue reading →

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The War on Christmas (no, not that one)

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one … Continue reading →

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7 Years Ago Today

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

November 29, 2004, I was at the hospital, welcoming Bee into the world. People occasionally assume I’m Bee’s grandmother – which I think is just mean, and awful, and stupid, and which always leaves me depressed for days.  But I … Continue reading →

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All Saints Day: The Church of Foolish Lovers

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

Frederick Buechner said that God “makes his saints out of fools and sinners because there is nothing much else to make them out of.”  It’s a line I quote often, partly because, as a fool and a sinner myself, I … Continue reading →

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Word from Your Mother

Posted on May 8, 2011 by

We are a low maintenance family when it comes to celebrating.  Here is an exchange I heard between Cheesy and a friend recently: Friend:  So what did you get from the Easter Bunny? Cheesy:  I got two little chocolate chickens … Continue reading →

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Eastertide: N.T. Wright on how Christians should celebrate

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Boy am I tired.  My father’s surgery went well and I was home in time to catch Striker’s soccer game this evening.  They’re 11-0 now, thank you very much. In keeping with the Eastertide theme, here’s a passage from N.T. … Continue reading →

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I Want to Live in Eastertide

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

We make little jokes in our church staff meetings that might seem irreverent to some.  For instance, it was in a staff meeting that I was introduced to the Vintage 21 Jesus – because a certain person on staff, ahem, … Continue reading →

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Resurrection Day

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

It’s been raining and cool today; not the beautiful spring day we’d hoped for Easter.  That doesn’t change the fact that it’s been a wonderful day in the ways that really count.  A church full of friends and family celebrating … Continue reading →

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