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Jan, when she was a parish pastor, used to make a regular practice of "Monastery Days"--days when she was outside her usual worksp...

With snow breaking down doors in upstate New York, and all 50 states seeing the below-freezing mark at the same time, and the ridiculous chi...

Every year I challenge myself not to turn on the heat until at least Halloween. If I can make it, I try for Thanksgiving. This year it got ...

Winter in the upper midwest is dark. Spring is not supposed to be, and we do have that whole Daylight Saving business (and I'll admit ...

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...

you probably need a lift to get to the top of the snow mountain I lifted out of the driveway this evening. And having done that, I don't...

Today, thanks to Door to Door Organics, I had a little Egypt flashback. When I first went to Egypt, one of the stranger and more wonderful t...

Today my cats are going crazy. It can't be just the wind (which is also crazy) because it was insanely windy yesterday and they weren...

Over at RGBP Kathryn writes: I'm heading from unseasonably warm temperatures and no snow to a place of GREAT SNOW. Sadly, for reasons t...

So, the fact that I currently have about 20 books on hold at the library, 5 of which are available the next time I go (I tried to go tonight...

This is my 1400th post on this blog. I've been writing here since May 29, 2002...and in that first post I said that I might sometimes wr...

Every winter is full of firsts, just like every year and every other kind of adventure. The first frost, the first freeze, the first snow, t...

We've reached the time of year when it's cloudy almost every day. As I look out my office window this morning, there's gray asph...

I confess that I didn't play the Friday Five yesterday on purpose. I could have--I have answers for all those questions, I had the free...

Usually I am sort of against rain, on philosophical principle. I mean, I get that it's necessary for plants to grow and stuff (and I do ...

Holy Week happened--our progressive-worship (like a progressive dinner, where you all go on to a different place together) Maundy Thursday s...

I finally sucked it up and got wireless internet at my house. That's right, I bought an AirPort Express --which, incidentally, looks a...

it'll be brief, then over, I promise... ...I do not like rainy summers. I do not like humidity. It's icky outside and I want it to...

it's snowing. a lot. and then more. it's wet and heavy, it's windy, it's getting colder, the roads are nasty. I do not appro...