Coming up for air

Briefly, must come up and say howdy, because DFH made the most ironic funny, or the funniest irony, I’ve heard in ages. Bear in mind I’m an ally and card-carrying HRC and True Colors kinda gal, so I say this with a big grin on my face.
As we were coming home, driving into the valley [...]

Goodbye, VW

I’m about ready to trade in my wonderful-when-it’s-not-constantly-ailing VW, now that I’m almost not upside down on the loan. Eyeing the Toyota line–can’t afford a hybrid, yet, but those smaller cars get better than 30 mpg highway, which is the bulk of my commute.
We’re going out for test-drives this weekend. Already drove a Yaris sedan [...]

Extraordinary time

Why is it that I always feel the strongest draw to the church during the middle of July?
It has happened every single year since I came back to faith, and once again, I’m wondering how on earth I can live out my faith in a more visible way.
Weird.

found

I just found an old picture of me, DJing New Year’s Eve 2003. Note the painting in the background.
Click for picture…
This was about two months before I came back to faith & church, not that it’s particularly relevant, except that angels are everywhere, aren’t they?
(ETA: Every time I find myself again musing over discernment and [...]

Jimmy Carter on our divisions

“The Baptists are divided, the Methodists are divided, obviously the Episcopalians are divided along with Anglicans, or to take it one step away the Roman Catholics have sharp divisions among themselves. And I think this saps away from the vitality of the entire Christian Church, in a generic sense. It encompasses about 2 billion people [...]

Missing connections

Wondering if any of my Virginia connections know the Rev. Anne Coghill MacNabb, ’cause I went to high school with an Anne Coghill and I’m wondering if it’s one and the same. She had long, wavy hair and there’s a fuzzy image in the Sept. 2004 Virginia Episcopalian of the Rev. MacNabb, who also has [...]