Quotidian Grace

Yesterday afternoon El Jefe and I joined SIL and BIL at the last Astros game of the season. Today's game had the largest attendance of a...

Here's Borger's (El Jefe's hometown in the Texas Panhandle) answer to Amarillo's Horses (see previous post) and the Cow Par...

I was reminded of my blogPal Mindy when I saw this horse in the Amarillo airport on our way home from Borger. The picture on its side depic...

I'm writ ing this post from the Hutchinson County Library in beautiful downtown Borger, Texas. El Jefe and I are back in his hometown fo...

~ trumpet fanfare ~ Babs got a job! As a counselor! With a large private counseling service in Houston! Do you think posting the Blues Song ...

As the saying goes: "It's always darkest just before the dawn." No sooner had I posted Babs' Job Hunting Blues, then she g...

~cue harmonica riff~ You know I'm feelin' so lowdown, draggy and frustrated, Job huntin's going nowhere an' sittin' roun...

Hat tip: Locusts and Honey .

One of the duties of the Moderator of presbytery's General Council is to give a devotional at the beginning of the meeting, or see that ...

Today's Friday Five is brought by Reverendmother on the subject of meetings, inspired no doubt by the reality of life in the PCUSA. 1. ...

Thanks for the comments and concern about what turned into Hurricane Humberto. Fortunately for the Houston area, the storm veered east and m...

This little fellow blew up today just off the coast of Galveston and is predicted to hit our area later tonight. We're more concerned ab...

Yesterday I went to my favorite masseuse because of painfully tight muscles in my neck and shoulder. She's really a hoot--the descendant...

The Presbyterian Outlook reported yesterday that the PCUSA's Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick will step down at the end of his term nex...

Dr. Jerome Groopman teaches at the Harvard Medical School and writes frequently for the New Yorker magazine. In How Doctors Think , he offer...

I'm thinking that with a little tweaking of the lyrics, this would make a perfect theme song for my Mom of Congress campaign. Waddaya t...

Here's the latest on the dachshund front. My nephew, Doc the naval surgeon, and his fiancee' Queenie, Portia's college roomie an...