Religious women - both Catholic and Orthodox, and yes, one Methodist minister - have been a tremendous influence in my life. Right now, American Catholic (mainly) Religious and (some) Nuns (NB: Nuns are cloistered and thus rarely found outside of monasteries; those women who taught you, etc. are Religious Sisters) are under threat from the Vatican ( Read more... )

Mr. Bad Cat has come home! Someone called last night saying that she has been seeing him every evening and only just saw the "lost cat" signs. She says he's been trying to get in to her ground floor apartment (we live on the ground floor) through the sliding glass door (how he got out) from the lawn (our apartment also faces a lawn - are you ( Read more... )

We have had a quiet Thanksgiving at home - unusually quiet, since I have lost my voice completely. Laryngitis: no fun. However, we managed to cook and eat:
Turkey
Cornbread stuffing
Cranberries (recipe courtesy Ed Flesh, whom I mention because he died this year and because he was a very nice man ( Read more... )

My Grandpa Zacharias died yesterday morning at the age of 98 - except he wasn't actually my Grandpa Zacharias. Grandpa Zacharias was Mama Judy's father, and Mama Judy and Joe are my alternate parents - my parents' best friends. I grew up a very short walk away from them, went to school with their kids, spent weeks at a time at their house, had ( Read more... )

This year, I posted the names of 30 LGBT people killed in hate crimes around the United States. Here is the explanation that I posted to my facebook wall ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. The lack of a computer is a major factor ( Read more... )

This morning, I was wandering aimlessly around facebook (I do this for about 10 minutes every morning) and my friend N. sent me a message ( Read more... )

I've decided that drama is full of cholesterol and fattening. I'm on a diet. No drama ( Read more... )

We got married yesterday. It was a semi-elopement, but we had a good small handful of close friends there, including klaughingbrook and dindin. melebeth took a lot of time and trouble to take a lot of photographs, truly beautiful photographs. scooterbird performed the ceremony, which had some traditional Orthodox blessings in with some secular and Pagan elements. My condition was ( Read more... )

Late summer is a strange time. The weather is more like Los Angeles than the Mid-Atlantic. Days are warm. Nights are cool, breezy, and relatively dry. Some of the trees are just starting to change - including the very top of one maple. I'm worried about my life and the months ahead ( Read more... )