That would be Season for Caring

I referred to the Statesman’s holiday campaign as Season of Giving, but it’s actually Season for Caring. The family from my church is the one whose last name begins with M*. If you click on the above link, you can see the video they filmed during church. I’m glad to say that [...]

Restful Thanksgiving weekend

After the other crazy-busy weekends I have had this month, I was so happy not to have much planned for the long weekend. I finally watched the DVD of Talk to Me that I’d had out from Netflix for half a month. Saturday was yucky weather-wise, so I spent the whole day at [...]

One of my favorite authors has died.

When Leah and I were very, very small, my mom used to read to us from A Wrinkle in Time. All the tesseract stuff was over my head as a 6 year old, but I loved the story of a girl and her genius brother searching for their father. I went on to [...]

Farewell, Pavarotti

I called my dad this morning when I saw the top story on BBC World News – that Pavarotti had died. I almost feel like a family friend has died, one that I knew better when I was younger and I had lost touch with in recent years. I’m sad, but given the [...]

Longest. Memorial service. Ever.

This weekend I attended a memorial service for a pleasant fellow who had attended my old church. Going to the service reminded me of all the reasons I don’t attend that church anymore. The service included a sermon, 5 remembrances, a Psalter, at least two really long prayers, and communion (among all the [...]

Swimming at Dottie Jordan

Yesterday at church, N. (one of the girlies) cornered me on the stairs and asked me to take her to the pool that afternoon. She said that they usually get to swim in her class at day-camp, but that because of some bad-behaved kids, they didn’t get to swim this week.
So my sister and [...]

Open window policy

Last week I took a co-worker to pick up her car at the shop and on the way we stopped at Wendy’s. After we paid for the food, I tried rolling my window back up. It stuck hard, and was pretty hesitant, until I really pushed it so it finally went up.
Then, given [...]

Almost there, I think

Last night Leah and I packed up the kitchen (mostly) at the house. Every room we pack up makes me feel a little less overwhelmed . . . now we just have stacks of boxes at the condo. But I don’t mind that.
If we go over tonight, we may be able to wait [...]

Between books

I am always reading. I come from a family of book-readers. My parents have been known to take books to the movies to read before the film starts, Leah and I take books to read at church during lull times, and whenever I head out on a roadtrip, I make sure to bring [...]

I don’t want to be in your Youtube video

Leah and I were walking around some shops while up in north Texas last weekend for the Beethoven performance. As we walked in front of a Target, a blonde teenager (with camera and entourage) held out a cardboard sign in front of her saying “FREE hugs”. In the top right-hand corner, the amount [...]