This version of my Daily Routine began on my birthday - my personal "new year" is January 16th. This means that - every year - I get to procrastinate on New Year's Resolutions for an extra 15 days, and really mull over and ponder the changes I want to make in the upcoming year.

This past January 16th was a big one: the first birthday I truly ( Read more... )

Ah, well. Would you look at that? I remembered my password. (That's a brain cell I'm glad I kept intact.)

The following is rough, and I'll edit later. But since Facebook is being weird about letting me edit my own comments and posts - hmmmmm ... did someone "report" me? Are my Government watchers - who told me last summer that my Facebook page has a ( Read more... )

The whys and the wherefores are many, but simple enough, I suppose:

• I am delighted to get to spend so much time with my siblings, their significant others, and my nieces;
• I am thrilled to reconnect with old friends;
• You can take the boy out of the mountains, but you cannot take the mountains out of the boy; and
• Mom (*sigh*)

If you're a mountains-based ( Read more... )

"Dear Lord, please don't let me be The Anti-Christ!" ~ David A. Smith, circa 9 years old, hanging upside-down on his swingset in Hotchkiss, WV, after his first tent revival at the Church of God, contemplating the unjustness of a God who would pre-determine that someone had to be the villain in His weird little psychodrama.

Some of my friends have ( Read more... )

As anyone who knows me well will tell you, I am surprisingly sentimental ... once you get to know me. I mark sentimental anniversaries like a Mayan calendar carver with OCD.

Earlier this year, my new friend Sherry and I were talking about the process of grieving the loss of a long-term relationship: in this case, the journey I've taken since Patrick ( Read more... )

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Wanna be there for the historic Senate vote on DADT. This is my idea of a good time. Reposted from a message board ...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Senate

Posted by CorpGovActivist on Thu Nov-02-06 11:00 AM

Rightfully so, a number of skeptical DUers have questioned whether or not I was really spending time ( Read more... )

Recycled from a message board posting I made a while back ... some of the recent talk about people taking their Organized Religion / Personal Faith Tradition too seriously prompted me to re-post here ( Read more... )

The theory is hardly mine, and it's hardly new: was the historical Jesus gay? That so many of us have independently raised this (inconvenient and uncomfortable) question is telling, I think.

If "idle hands are The Devil's Workshop," then bored young minds trapped in the pew are His Skunkworks. When you're trapped in a Pentecostal pew three times a ( Read more... )

Much to my astonishment and surprise, I recently discovered that my capacity to love, show affection, and even consider myself worthy of receiving the same in return was ... still extant. Frankly, it was a bit like a deaf / mute / blind quadruple amputee in a long-term coma waking up to discover that everything had regenerated, and the world was ( Read more... )