My mom made an unplanned trip to the hospital last Monday and is still being probed, poked, and prodded as I blog this by a dozen doctors, interns, and residents who all look much too young and make me feel much too old. I arrived a couple days ago to join my siblings in hovering [...]

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I’m a Goof Ball. Whether it’s attributed to my middle-aged mental deterioration or faulty genetic coding remains to be discovered. All I know is I have what seems to be an innate propensity for those actions most attributed to those of a pathological Goof Ball and two nights ago was no exception. Case in point.
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Posted in Storytelling, Theology 1 Comment »

I don’t know about you but there’s danger lurking at our church on Palm Sunday. The young children of the congregation are lined up on both sides of the main entry leading into the sanctuary and armed with porcupine-pointy palm branches twice their size that awkwardly slice through the air as the children attempt to [...]

Posted in Church, Word Dribble 1 Comment »

On any ordinary day I find myself thinking gay. At home. In the car. At the gym or grocery store or the DMV. Okay. At the DMV I’m not thinking gay. I’m thinking how they could possibly go any slower in getting us through those miserable insufferable lines. But even there, something might trigger the [...]

Posted in Human Sexuality, So Gay 11 Comments »

There are approximately a gazillion blogs I stalk frequently visit. One of them is *! [emphatic asterisk]. Another is Suddenly Christian. So, the other day I had retreated to my secret undisclosed location, a.k.a. Starbucks, to write a blog entry; the second half on wrestling with God. I felt stuck in a writer’s block kind [...]

Posted in Christian Lesbian Identity, Personal Stories, SisterFriends 3 Comments »

Getting back to where I left off before life, laundry, and laziness intervened, here are some thoughts as I read the story of Jacob wrestling with God in Genesis 32 and how there might be some connecting points for those GLBTQ Christians who find themselves still struggling to reconcile their faith and sexuality. As the [...]

Posted in Coming Out, Queering the Bible 2 Comments »