Nearly every Christmas I bake between 12-25 gingerbread houses for the children at church to decorate. This year’s theme is Extreme Gingerbread Home Make-Over although I played briefly with the idea of Sugar Gone Wild. I also decided that this year I wanted to extend the invitation to include anyone in the church who wanted [...]

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You should never have gone into ministry. You should never have worked with children. What you’re doing right now makes all that you’ve taught those children over the years meaningless. This will completely destroy everything you’ve ever done in ministry. I remember thinking at the time, some 12 years ago, “She’s so upset she doesn’t [...]

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Wednesday D and I were both working at home in the afternoon and decided to take a coffee break and drive up to Starbucks for a caffeine fix. I swear I’d take it direct in the veins if they offered it that way. “Would you like that espresso in a cup or IV drip?”  I [...]

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I hope you all had as nice a weekend as I did and those of you in storm territory are safe in home and body. I had intended to upload the photos and stories last night but was too pooped to post, and this morning I’m trying to get myself out the front door to [...]

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On Saturday evening our friends Heather and Denise were married…again. D and I are ahead of them by one with a wedding count of 3 to 2 but who’s counting? I mean it’s not as if it’s a competition though if it were, we would obviously be the winners! Anyway, though the girls did not [...]

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Dear Advocate for Yes on Proposition 8, I found the handbill you left on our front door Saturday morning with the handwritten note, “Sorry I missed you.” I’m sorry I missed you too. No really. I am. I would have liked the opportunity to meet you and made a little neighborly chit chat before inviting [...]

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In my childhood home there was a strictly-enforced no swearing policy. Swearing and name-calling were so off-limits I was afraid of them; afraid that if one of those dreaded nuggets of blasphemy passed over my lips, it might void my ticket on the glory train. I’m not even talking the big swear words known, loved, [...]

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This coming Sunday is the Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco and while D and I’ve gone a couple times in the past it’s something we tend to avoid at this point in our lives. Maybe other 51 year old women enjoy standing in the glaring sun for five hours with 3 bazillion other spectators [...]

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I don’t know how much the rest of the country and world is hearing about the recent decision by the California Supreme Court, extending the fundamental right to marry to same-sex couples but understandably it’s made it’s appearance on the front page of California newspapers more than a few times since May 15th court ruling. [...]

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I remember seeing the words “morbidly obese” on my medical chart for the first time when I was in the sixth grade. Though I didn’t fully understand what the words meant I pieced together it wasn’t good. No one had ever called me “obese” before, but as the biggest girl in all my elementary school [...]

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