Has it really been over two months since I updated here?  I’ll work on correcting that.Yesterday, of course, was Halloween.  I’ve spent probably over two decades disliking the “holiday”.  I’m not big into slash and gore movies, I don’t generally believe in the paranormal, and I don’t care to focus on death and pain.  I […]

Our parish rector is still on sabbatical, so while she’s away we sometime have guest preachers on Sunday morning to help out our assistant rector. This past Sunday, we listened to one of our fellow parishioners, a retired “famous” (so he says) staff member from the local professional football team. His topic was […]

How do you teach a toddler about the world’s problems and then comfort them when there are no easy answers?

You’d think that there would be higher priorities in the process of raising a 22-month-old little boy at Christmas time, but all of these things happen in their due course.

Beginning last year, with his very first […]

I’ll be the first to admit that I have Halloween issues.  I don’t like the event.  (If you’re out there, Cosette - sorry.)  It doesn’t really have anything to do with the fact that it’s exactly a week after my birthday, that fact never bothered me.
Sure, as a kid, I dressed up in costume and […]