Humor me for a minute. I had a random thought the other day. Okay. Most of my thoughts tend to be random, obscure, and border on a need for therapeutic analysis but this was a fun one to play with for a while and so I’m tossing it out into the universe to ponder collectively.
So [...]

Posted in Holidays and Special Times, Storytelling 7 Comments »

My blog posts have been far and few between over the past three months. There was our vacation in mid-summer followed by my two surgeries followed by my mom’s death three weeks ago. There were times I didn’t post because I was delightfully busy with life, other times I was fuzzy-brained from pain medications and [...]

Posted in Anita, Storytelling 18 Comments »

For the last two weeks leading up to and following my mom’s death, D and I have been surrounded by people whose faith is grounded within conservative Christianity. These are the people who hold starring roles in the memories of my childhood and youth. They are the people who as adults already themselves watched me [...]

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During the week following surgery I had done little more than sleep on the couch, sleep on the recliner,  sleep on the bed and gulp down pain medication (hence all the aforementioned napping), so when D left one morning to run errands I thought enough was enough; it was about time I get up and [...]

Posted in Grace Meditations, Storytelling 8 Comments »

For years one of my most cherished childhood possessions was a Christian novelty item, a chintzy white porcelain six-inch plate with a picture of Jesus painted in the center; the light-skinned, blue-eyed, wavy blonde-haired, semi-smiling version of Jesus. Similar renderings of which could be found in my framed needlepoint wall hanging of the Good Shepherd [...]

Posted in Grace Meditations, Storytelling 7 Comments »

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 [...]

Posted in Grace Meditations, Storytelling 5 Comments »

[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 [...]

Posted in Coming Out, Storytelling 31 Comments »