I am struck by how, as I start over, I'm doing all the same things in a different way to begin a life that is different, only some how the same.

Today I attended church service at my new church for the fourth time.  Yup, that's right, do the math, I've been here for twenty-two-and-a-bit days and I've spent four of them at church. This morning I ( Read more... )

I've been looking forward to this: a new beginning, a fresh start, an opportunity to hit the restart button ( Read more... )

I'm in that place again.  Three nos.  Three yeses -two with full funding. One that has neither given me the wink, nor set me free.  Not that that last one really matters.  I didn't think that I'd feel all "been there done that" but, really, I sorta do.  And very very shortly it will no longer be the only known on my radar.  The two offers are ( Read more... )

What I love about a novel is how they change a person.  Not only how they shape how one views the subject matter at hand, or even the surrounding world, but how a good novel settles just below the surface or burrows deep inside and is carried there for the rest of the reader's life.

I've had so many blogs in mind that I don't even know where to start today.  But, I have decided that I am a writer and, as a writer, I intend on writing a little every single day.  Really, I should amend this to say "I intend on writing a little of my thesis everyday."  And I do.  But blogs count too.

I thought that I could start by giving people a ( Read more... )

*note: This is one of those blogs that you have to follow the links in order to 'get'.  Starting with the linked word "recently" it is imperative that you follow the links.  *grin*

Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse has always been a favourite of mine.  Maybe it was the fact that I remember my mom having one of her earliest collections ( Read more... )

No, this will not be a post pertaining to Four Saints in Three Acts, nor will I quote any lines from Thomson/Stein opera, but every time I hear poor St. Ignatius' name I get it stuck in my head.

St. Ignatius of Loyola was the founder of the Society of Jesus (ie, the Jesuits) and the compiler of Spiritual Exercises... the more I encounter of this ( Read more... )