Posts under ‘Uncategorized’

My biggest mistake in this ridiculous Lenten process was telling my children. I can’t approach the drive-thru without loud reminders of my commitment! Ah, well.
Some days I drive by Starbucks and think that it was a wimpy exercise, of course I can stay away from Starbucks. Then, 10 days later I feel resentful that I’ve [...]

I decided to give up going to Starbucks every afternoon after teaching, before picking up my son from school, for Lent. It’s a ritual that I enjoy and I find it nearly impossible to give it up!
Here in State College there is one drive thru Starbucks, the rest of them you actually have to get [...]

In Forward’s “Day by Day” Flannery O’Connor is attributed with saying that “when we know the truth it will make us odd.”
Well, my husband is going to be ordained on Saturday. And, that truth makes us odd.
But, I’m okay with that. As the sacramental moment approaches I have found myself more and more nervous. [...]

We journeyed down to Philadelphia on Friday to the passport office. We arrived at
8:45 a.m. and the line was already across the front of the building and down a full city block.
Everybody in line was leaving the country within three days and everyone had an 8:30 a.m. appointment. There was some security and a [...]

Like millions of other Americans, we haven’t received our passports yet and we are set to leave on Tuesday! I have spent late evenings on the phone with the passport operators trying to make sure we have the golden booklets before Tuesday.
Tonight we have to phone to see if they have been processed yet. If [...]

I used to think 40 was old, but now that I’m officially 40 I can say it isn’t old. We had a blast of a party with all of my family at the beach over the weekend and we’re all married (last brother is engaged and marries this summer) and breeding great little people who [...]

You may have seen One on American Idol Gives Back, Bono even made an appearance.
One.org is a grassroots lobbying organization where you can sign letters and email them to your representatives to support legislation that supports debt relief and various poverty issue in this country and abroad. I have been surprised by how reponsive [...]

This weekend is the annual Blue-White football scrimmage here at PSU. But there is an honorable movement among Penn State students on Facebook. They are calling for Penn State fans to wear Maroon and Orange in memory of those slain at VaTech. So if you will be here this weekend let’s make it a Hokie [...]

On NPR this morning Steve Inskeep interviewed the Bordelons in St. Bernard Parish, New Orleans. Simon has kept in touch with them throughout the year and they are irrepressible. They have two FEMA trailers in their front yard, a house full of sheet rock, and a checkerboard neighborhood. But, this doesn’t stop them from cooking [...]

I heard back from the lady who helps to administer the FEMA trailer park in Baker, Louisiana. From an earlier post we heard how people are isolated and hungry. For those who can help this Thanksgiving she writes:
I am grateful for your help in providing monetary donations for a Thanksgiving Feast for Renaissance Village [...]