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I am a mere 183 years younger than the USS Constitution, often known as “Old Ironsides”! On the 21st of October, 1797, the third attempt to...

This year I have spent an inordinate amount of money on my house. In the past 12 months I have needed (due to breaking or danger): a new was...

Today was my grandpa's 80th birthday. Or it would have been, except that he died three years ago. I don't even understand how it...

It's so intriguing that the word for the last day of lent is also the wot that has been my church's focus for the season. We have sp...

It's a little weird to see the word "rejoice" come up before Easter, but there you go. Here at the beginning of Holy Week, wha...

just inside the door...i'm home. home is where you can get comfy--kick your shoes off, wear fuzzy socks, curl up on the couch, and rel...

I thought about reposting yesterday's pic because it included my beloved Fred, who has been sleeping with me for decades, on several con...

When they're ready, they rise to the top. YUM. I really love food. Good food is a joy and wonder in life. Of course, I'm also aw...

last week I got a box from dad, and it has all kinds of new-to-me cookbooks from mom. I'm not really a baker, but who knows, I might jus...

an evening of centering prayer in the sanctuary...looking toward the cross as it becomes the tree of life. day 24 of lent photo a day...

I took a picture yesterday, but it wasn't what I really wanted...because I was too tired to spend the time making dinner last night. DST...

I was making soup tonight, and I couldn't find any rosemary. Now, the recipe didn't exactly call for rosemary, but when has a recipe...

okay, for the first (hopefully only) time this Lent, I'm going to use a photo I took at another time, rather than one I took today. My d...

I've been burning the candle at both ends for a couple of weeks, and am beginning to feel it. I've been all sneezy the last couple ...

Some of the tools for quenching my thirst... Though interesting that this is the prompt for a communion Sunday, when we remember Jesus...

What does the church need to do more often? Leave. We need to take our faith outside the doors, because too often we make a joyful noise i...

They come from deep in the dark earth, but they taste like heaven. Day 14 of lent photo a day.

I confess that I really wanted today's word to be "listen" instead of "hear"--because it's so much easier to tak...

We all know you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover. And yet... We do. All the time. Sometimes it's literally judging a...

sometimes seeing what could  be is the hardest part of being a pastor. Not only in the sense of figuring out what could be--the sense of hav...