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On Friday, a couple of our Grove members had their baby very, very early (24 weeks). The girl is apparently doing quite well given the premature birth, but there's still a long way to go ( Read more... )

Things I have learned, having a pregnant wife:

1) It is so rarely about you, or your family. ( Read more... )

I guess I don't know what I really expected: to get to be the person who got to tell people the news that was mine to tell? To believe that maybe I'd get to tell people something cool one-on-one when it was quiet and intimate and joyful for me and for them? To maybe (just maybe) not have to pick and choose who got to know what at what time, but to ( Read more... )

The last month or so has been interesting, to say the least. I've been dealing with a large number of items at work, some good (yay, raise!) and some bad (boo, software audit!), but generally life is good there ( Read more... )

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So, this may be a tad belated, but I've had a lot of high school, middle school, and even elementary school friends find me via Facebook and other social networking projects. This message is for you, and all those who have "friended" me but don't know a lot about me (including family members and internet strangers, I guess ( Read more... )

Most recently, I've been spending a lot of time on the revisions to the Clergy Training Program in ADF. This has been at times tedious, joyful, annoying, refreshing, and often all these things and more at once. It has practically consumed every waking moment of my life for the past three months, all told ( Read more... )

Last night, I received via mail one of the magical tools I was personally missing to start the Nine Woods IP work. Only one other thing is missing, but I believe I know exactly where to get that. Doing the work within our Grove also gives me the opportunity to make solid use of one of our Grove symbols for a change, meaning that another object that ( Read more... )

It took me twenty-four hours for my body to get back to where it was before my initiation: until about 8 PM last night, I was so exhausted, emotionally and physically, that it was hard to smile or converse. The drive back down to Columbus seemed to take all day (though the company of kargach and romandruid was exceedingly welcome and helped immensely), and I found ( Read more... )