adding my two cents

I’m frustrated. And overwhelmed. And saddened.  So, I’ve decided to do a little something about it.  While on vacation I attempted to get caught up with the health care reform maelstrom.  (Hey! I just used ‘maelstrom’ in a sentence!) It’s all a bunch of knots.  I’ve griped, and bitched, and dreamed and schemed.  Then I [...]

how Beefeater saved me from amputation. or stories of a lack of grace.

Sunday started out relatively commonplace.  The beauty and warmth and sun of Saturday gave way to the overcast and rain that has become this summer’s norm.  I reluctantly dragged myself out of bed on the promise of a lovely Sunday afternoon nap (like no other nap out there).  Ate a little breakfast, got ready, visited [...]

Why I ate dinner at 9:15 p.m. And other reports from the northeast.

Okay, mostly just the one story, but now you’re intrigued aren’t you?
Since the last post (gah! I know. Tsk, tsk.) I moved from one quaint college town to another.  The impulse to compare the two is completely irrepressible.  Kutztown is much smaller than Bloomsburg, but hard to tell because it is situated right in between [...]

update from the east

What a quaint college town.  In the summer. Which means this town is probably a pretty buzzing place during fall and spring.  But starts to close at around 7 p.m.  Some places stay open till 10:00.  There is certainly potential…
I’m sitting in a coffee shop: Uptown Espresso Bar.  You can probably guess: old wooden tables [...]

I should know.

Moving ought to be old hat for me by now.  Four years in and out of college dorms, three years in and out of seminary dorms (well, one dorm, one room, three years.  Small miracle for this girl), two summers back and forth for internships, ten months of long-distance cavorting, and a move to the [...]

dates.

No, not that kind.
Andrew Bird concert in Dallas: March 22
10K in Austin: March 29
Comps: Scheduled.  April 21, 23, 24.  Get it done.
Spring Youth Retreat: April 24-26.  Take exams. Vomit everything I know about three different subjects into a USB drive.  Go hang out with youth for a weekend.  Re-focus.
Oral Exam/Proposal Defense: Sometime the following week.
Students’ [...]

here we go.

It’s all happening.
At another time in my life, someone I used to know would say that often describing all sorts of other things that were happening. Things coming together. Things moving forward.
When I moved to Waco, it didn’t feel like everything was happening. Everything was new and different and I hate moving, I hate new [...]

the sanctity of what

There seems to be a fundamental disconnect in how we see ourselves as functioning members of society and the implications of the presence of an Other on that identity. If I see myself as “one from many” (E Pluribus Unum—dolla’ dolla’ bills, y’all), and my One identity is equal to—no better, no worse—than the Ones [...]

thank you.

From Salon.com. (read the whole thing here)
When you don’t take your own career and reputation seriously enough to pause before striding onto a national stage and lying about your record of opposing a Bridge to Nowhere or using your special-needs child to garner the support of Americans in need of healthcare reform you don’t support, [...]

just desserts.

John Claypool has said that too often we rely on the eyes of Justice, rather than looking through the lens of Generosity (according to this morning’s sermon).
I believe they are two sides of the same coin. That justice, in fact, is supposed to be generous. At least the justice I read about from [...]