Quotidian Grace

Yesterday I had a delightful lunch with several of the gals I know around the presbytery who served their churches as Directors of Christian...

Here's my latest Best of the Blogs column for the October issue of Presbyterians Today. It's About Numbers . The biggest challenge i...

This weekend I was surfing my favorite online shopping sites looking for fall clothes. Yeah, I know, it was briefly fall-ish here (below 90 ...

Mitch Albom, the best-selling author of Tuesdays With Morrie , The Five People You Meet in Heaven , and a slew of other books, has a new non...

Landscape Update : Thanks to everyone who contributed suggestions for our back yard! I'm thinking about planting a red oak and an elm fo...

Here's a question for my Gentle Readers With Green Thumbs, especially those of you who live in my southeast Texas area. What trees do yo...

If it weren't for my daughter Babs, I never would have read The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks. This is the compelling story of a b...

Last night we celebrated with Babs and P-Dubya the news that she just received her unrestricted Licensed Professional Counselor designation ...

This morning I'm contemplating the things I didn't see myself doing twenty years ago. Things like... Running a doggy day care for Ol...

You know, what with trying to follow the health care reform controversies in the news, the beginning of BSD, planning to move The Diva to he...

Razzlefrackzit! I caught Portia's cold yesterday. Tomorrow is the big kick-off for BSD and I don't need to be red-nosed and sneezing...

Portia, the Diva, SIL, Babs and I had a wonderful time Saturday shopping for THE dress. And yes, we found it. It was clear by the way Babs...

Today's Friday Fun comes from the inimitable SpookyRach at Skewed View . PresbyReaders can substitute "elders" for "deaco...

Dear Congress Boys and Girls, CongressMom hopes that you enjoyed your August break, even though some of you had a better time than others. I...

Ronald Kessler, formerly a reporter for both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, has written a series of "inside the (fill...

Woof! Beatrice here with a report on QG's latest enterprise--dachsie day care. Ever since Portia and DK moved into the neighborhood, I...

With a hat tip to GA Junkie , Steve Salyards, let me introduce you to the Bad Vestments Blog ("because Christian worship is not suppo...

This week my friend Mary Marcotte ( who is also a certified DCE and Associate General Presbyter of Presbytery of New Covenant) told me about...

I just got back from fetching our own Divine Diva Catherine from the airport and, after a bite of lunch, depositing her at Houston Grand Ope...

Yesterday one of my fellow choir members asked me what a visitor would think about our church based on the way our chancel is arranged. What...