So, female Catholic priests: how would they be addressed? I always called all my priests Father Whoever; so would female priests be Mother Whoever? All my Googling for information on the splinter groups ordaining women fails to mention what the hell they call them once they've ordained them ( Read more... )

I ask my mother if she can watch Isk so Leigh and I can run to the store to grab a new bottle of baby vitamins. (Drug stores without the New York City markup are a great pleasure for us; we save minor purchases like this for trips to the motherland where possible.) Sure, she says. My father, cooking dinner in the kitchen, asks if we need money ( Read more... )

If anyone heard about the absurd weather in NYC today, and wondered, "Were the Nahurriyehs OK ( Read more... )

People over here interested in stalking me might be interested in three "recent" posts I put up in DW comms:

At omnomnom:

Kale Fried Rice
Green Salad with Pistachio-crusted Goat Cheese Balls & Onion Vinaigrette; also chocolate

At gardening:

My Garden! (with gratuitous Isk picture)

In other news:

• My current work writing project is awful and ( Read more... )

I'm having a deeply negative day, so I'm making a list of things that I feel positively about, to make me feel better. We'll see if it works.

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1) My university email is having some sort of fit, which I do not understand, but it results in students not receiving my emails. As I teach online, This Is A Problem. Anyway, yesterday I managed to send out my gmail email to all of my students via our course software, and then got emails from a few of them, which I was answering ( Read more... )

Over at DreamWidth, there's a new Big Bang being run that seems really exciting: Ladies' Big Bang. Things I like about it ( Read more... )

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So it's Lent.

I like Lent. I like that the Catholic calendar has all these seasons of anticipation, of expectant waiting, which is a principle that is key to my faith as a Quaker. I like that it's about doing something, that it's got rituals attached that are supposed to mean something to you. For someone who gave up the most ritualized of ( Read more... )