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I’m Dreaming of a White Easter

Posted in IrishOboe

In the dark we gathered at Margarethen cemetery, lit torches, sang, and walked over the hill to the church.   We gathered...

 
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Christus ist Auferstanden!

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I get up in six hours for the sunrise service, but I just got back from an Easter Vigil service that lasted longer than two hours and...

 
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Good Friday

Posted in IrishOboe

I’ve been working hard all week for the Good Friday service at BCF.   It was a nice service of readings, reflections,...

 
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Good Friday Thought: No Sin, No Forgiveness

I wouldn't have thought to search the pages of USA Today for Good Friday inspiration, but Google News thought otherwise and led me to...

 
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The Cult of the Amateur?

I’ve been a fan of the Mars Hill Audio Journal since the early 90s, though only an intermittent subscriber.   I enjoy and...

 
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Break Time!

Posted in IrishOboe

Easter is not yet here, but Easter break is!   Today was the last day of classes and I had class until 10pm.   It hardly...

 
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What's Always in the Refrigerator?

I accept the challenge from Liz ; the subject intrigues me.  What things are always found in your refrigerator?   I'll...

 
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This One's for You, Heather!

Dana Summers is one of my favorite cartoonists, partly because I like his cartoons and partly because he's a local boy.  Not a...

 
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Pre-dyed eggs

Posted in IrishOboe

They say America is the land of the ready-made, and it might be true, but I don’t remember ever seeing pre-dyed Easter eggs,...

 
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Blog Format Change

Posted in IrishOboe

In reviewing the function of my blog and the changing circumstances of my life I’ve decided to try a new approach to blog...

 
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Therefore Keep Watch

Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty Whether you attribute that quotation to Wendell Phillips, Thomas Jefferson, or Patrick...

 
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Apologies

Our spam filter usually works really, really well, but the stupid spammers are getting more and more clever, and there were two when I...

 
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Raclette

Last year when we went to Switzerland we tried several new Swiss dishes, but somehow missed raclette .  To make up for it, this...

 
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life , by Barbara Kingsolver,  Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver...

 
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Palm Sunday!

Happy Palm Sunday, one and all!  The choir sang for two services today, so we had double the fun.  Those of you who live up...

 
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Basic Hygiene? Thoughts on Deciding to Skip Breakfast...

One of the strangest and most difficult aspects of interacting with other people is discovering those areas which you consider to be...

 
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Update continued . . .

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It was too bad I couldn’t share the Renaissance dance concert with anyone, but I was blessed with the attendance of a number of...

 
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Happy Pi Day!

Not until I was writing the date on a customs form did I remember this most numerically felicitous of days. I found this joke...

 
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Bad Baby Names

Since—ta da!—we expect our fourth grandchild in October , and since choosing a baby's name has an aura of sacrament in...

 
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The Thrill of Victory

I've known the Agony of Defeat often enough when it comes to the sport of e-mail balancing, but today I glory in a victory:  My...

 
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Endeavour Launch

I had hoped to bring you video of tonight's launch of the space shuttle Endeavour .  Night launches are rare and beautiful. ...

 
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Crunchy Cons

Two years ago, Andy F. alerted me to a National Review article by Rod Dreher entitled Crunchy Cons .  This was actually a...

 
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My Best Soporific

As Janet has mentioned (in her comment on My Lenten Disciplines ), nothing sends me to sleep faster than staring at the television...

 
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Through Different Eyes

For those of you who don't read Heather and Jon's blog , I can't resist posting this view of life through the eyes of a four-year-old...

 
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Hooked on Skype Video

It's another one of those things I lived without just fine, thank you, though now I wonder why I waited so long.  Blame an...