Comings and Goings
Even after 30 plus years of marriage, this is the kind of exchange that still happens in our household. I ask, “Is Easter over now or does it continue in some way?” (I had a feeling, partly based on the…
Holy Week, and High School Too
When two people live together as spouses or partners, they converge in certain ways and at certain times. Over the past couple of years, the line on this graph — how much actual time spent in the same domicile —…
Welcoming Bad Bunny Into Our Household
Just as millions of Christians worldwide start up the on-ramp towards Easter Sunday, a certain mega-star has joined — in a manner of speaking — this particular clergy family. If you don’t know him (and that can be forgiven), here…
Celebrating Opposites
The clock on the microwave pronounced the time as shortly after 7:00 a.m. but then, maybe having something to do with a bishop husband getting his coffee before he headed out the door, when I looked again, after just dozing…
The 5 Ground-Conditions-in-Winter Languages, or The Varieties of Perilous Walking Experience
Are you reveling in your February, just tolerating it, or — no shame here — suffering through it? I’m thinking of the month, oddly enough, in two groups of five: one having to do with love, and the other, all…
Just Breathe, But Also Know When To Fight
Like someone with an ear right up against a radio, getting an occasional bit of voice in the crackling, I’m trying to sort out snippets of incoming news. The messages are definitely mixed, if not downright conflicting. “It’s this way….No,…
Turning Back the Years
The title I just chose reminds me of a hit song back in the mid-80’s by the group Simply Red — you may remember it — called “Holding Back the Years.” That had a mournful sound to it, swirling with…
Tchaikovsky, Updated
While I’m tempted to embark upon a continuation of my last topic – about the cleansing of our basement as an Advent activity (because there have been exciting new developments there) – I will refrain and move on to something…
More or Less or Even Nothing
Bombarded with messages from Out There about needing to get going in the Christmas department, I got up my nerve and asked my daughter a couple of weeks ago, “Can you sometime send me a quick list of things that…
That Was Then; This Is Now
Ten whole years: depending how you look at it, this is a huge expanse of time, enough to bring momentous changes, or just a heartbeat in the life of a planet or sometimes even a person. As the U.N. Climate…