I am a phenomenal dancer. I feel the music and shake it up like nobody’s business. When I’m home and the curtains are drawn, the lights are off, and the music is cranked up, I get my groove on. In my imagination. In the real world, I’m a pathetic dancer. So pathetic if you saw [...]

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Start with the photographs. Words will follow. I have a new love. Hiking. It only took one short trail along the California Coast for me to be wooed and now I’m hooked. I have new trail shoes, a daypack with frame, and my hiking shorts have pockets within pockets. I have a GPS and map [...]

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I was recently introduced to a small pamphlet from a Quaker series called “Reflections on Simplicity” by Elaine Prevallet. There’s nothing fancy about the presentation. No leather cover. No gold leaf edges. No cozy new book smell. Just 30 pages of truth and wisdom that poked me right between the eyes. The message is gentle [...]

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. . . . . . . . . . . David “NakedPastor” Hayward is a pastor, artist, cartoonist, and someone who from the distance of the internet seems like a pretty rock solid, live authentically kind of guy. If you know any different then by all means send me the juicy scandal but until [...]

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Last Saturday I threw an Easter Cookie Decorating Play Party for the young families at my church and I did the best I could to pack as much fun as I could in the two hours we spent together. There was the jelly bean favor tasting contest and a hunt in the church yard for [...]

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Last weekend while D and I were driving through the country we stopped to stretch and watch some sheep grazing in an open field near a vineyard when I noticed an odd little encounter going on between one of the smallest lambs and a bird. The bird would take a few steps with the lamb [...]

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The photo to the right (unless you receive my posts in email then who knows where the image is dropped!) shows all the solid food I consume in one week. Seriously. That’s it. For the few of you who follow my rather sporadic blog, Fasting for a Change, you know that for the past ten [...]

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I’m not embarrassed to say that this middle-aged lesbian American has a rather significant though purely platonic love-crush on Jon Birch, the mastermind, artist, and frequently heretical Brit behind ASBO Jesus. While Jon’s archive is filled with wonderful pieces on homosexuality and being gay, this most recent one was especially moving because while reality for [...]

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A childhood friend posted this photo on her Facebook page. That’s me on the right in my preschool Sunday School class. I was four years old and looking rather snappy, if I do say so myself and I will, in my fluffy white cotton knit sweater and skirt and shiny black patent leather Mary Janes. [...]

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Today while visiting the home of a congregational member I  noticed on entering her living room that she had the same drawing of Jesus that D and I have over our fireplace mantle. Above her copy was a red wood board and painted in white letters it read “Jesus loves me, this I know.” At [...]

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