D and I were wandering around a clothing store today and as we headed out to our car D said, “You’re smaller than the other woman who was in the store.” [If you follow me over on Facebook or on my other blog you'll know that both D and I have lost a significant amount [...]

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[Note: If you hate, dislike, or have no emotional attachment to cats, run now. I mean it. Shut down your browser window, close the lid on your laptop and flee. Go clean up your dog's mess in the backyard or throw a slobbery wet tennis ball at the doggy park. You have now entered Cat [...]

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I’ve posted this photograph of my grandma and me before. My blog. My grandma. Try to stop me!
Grandma’s name was Rosina. She was a true Swiss and the quintessential grandma. She and Grandpa had a family dairy (that continues to this day) and my childhood is stuffed to the brim with memories of being near [...]

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I preach as often as I clean out the junk drawer in our kitchen which is to say about two or three times a year. One of those rare preaching gigs seems to traditionally fall on the Sunday after summer break begins which means attendance is somewhere between scant and minimal. I like it that [...]

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I’ve been obese all my life. I spent my life transitioning from baby fat to chubby to overweight to obese to morbidly obese.  I only knew what it was to be the biggest kid in every class and the largest woman in every gathering. There were limitations on my life because of my weight. There [...]

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My beloved wife, best friend, and co-conspirator in mischief is at home in California while I’m in Oregon for a few days visiting my mom. I make this trip every six weeks or so and while I’m never gone for more than a few days at a time I start missing D before I’ve even [...]

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I went over to the city last week and by the city I mean theee city, San Francisco. When you say the city in the Bay area or in Central California for that matter, it’s basically an interchangeable term for San Francisco. No other details needed. And while I’m at it, it would be ever [...]

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This morning I drove into our little town to pick up a couple Valentine’s cards for D and was only in the card shop for a few minutes before the clerk, an older woman, asked if I needed any help.
“Do you have a separate section for Valentine’s Day for wives?” I said.
“You mean for a [...]

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My favorite five minutes of every week are leading the children’s sermon on Sunday mornings. Reading the liturgical text for the week and then finding a way to communicate the heart of it to the children helps me in my own faith. I’m all for exegetical dissection, theological reflection, and thoughtful consideration of brilliant theologians [...]

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Today is my birthday. 52. I, Anita, am 52 years old. Whoa. How did that happen? I was a young thing a couple years ago, give or take 30 years more or less, so imagine my surprise to wake up this morning and discover that I’m 50 plus change.
Seriously, I’m not one given to mourning [...]

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