new rule

If you constantly tell me how busy you are (busier than me), yet you have a job where you are allowed to be on Facebook during work hours as well as frequently have time to be on Facebook during work hours to tell me how busy you are, I’m allowed to think that’s a load [...]

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dream big

I know this event was pre-Percocet and perhaps pre-Vicodin, but while reading RLP’s piece on dreams this evening I remembered that recently I had a dream in which I don’t remember what all happened, but at the end of it I knew I had celebrated Mass.  I don’t remember why I knew that.  Perhaps it [...]

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take that, credobaptists

How bad is it for me to think “I win!” when I realize that actually, when you think about it, my baptism predated a true profession of faith?

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hode up y’all

I think we’ve got this whole “stumbling block” business completely wrong. “Stumbling block” is so often interpreted to mean “don’t do anything with the appearance of evil” – drinking, smoking, cursing, skipping church, dancing – yet so rarely includes “being a jerk in the name of Christ”.  Ever wonder what a stumbling block damnation-dealing Christians [...]

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why do i ever wonder why

I’ve wondered why I do stuff like go to my students’ performances, take them home for a few days of care/fun, and give copious amounts of positive (but honest) feedback during sessions.  Is it because I’m a softie with no life?  Today as I watched one of my students dance across the stage with her [...]

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can you have too many old methodist hymnals?

I didn’t even mean to, but I wound up dropping by a garage sale today on my way back from the church just to see if they maybe had some stuff I could use at school.  Affirmative.  A set of Cuisenaire rods that my cats seem to think is a really great bed, a set [...]

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holy jesus snack cup!

I’ll not steal D’s blog fodder, but the first thing I thought of when I read this is “Also, just because a woman and a man walk in together does not mean they are married. People, how about not assuming my brother (or, more frequently: my immediate priest) is my husband?” I think we’re gonna [...]

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and all i got was this lousy blog post

I survived parent-teacher conferences this week.  Miraculous!  Unfortunately, one of my families’ cars spontaneously combusted during their child’s conference.  The vehicle and contents were a total loss, but thanks be to God that nobody was in the car and subsequently injured. As I was being grateful for my functional vehicle, looking at my passenger seat [...]

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have you stolen from your priest today?

Uh, I just realized I totally pried a prayer book out of my immediate priest’s hands after Mass today.  He wouldn’t give me his vestments so I could go put them away in the sacristy and he had his hands full with his BCP/hymnal while trying to greet parishioners.  I thought that was crap and [...]

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real quick here

I think this is my favorite quote for the day: young normal-hearing kid: “Miss Elle, we’re going on a mushroom hunt!” young deaf kids: [nodding and smiling enthusiastically] “YEAH!” me: “Cool!  DON’T EAT THE MUSHROOMS!” A little bit of knowledge is really a dangerous thing here.  To probably all of these kids, mushrooms equal something [...]

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