Quotidian Grace

El Jefe and I are off tomorrow at o'dark thirty with a crew of fellow Presbyterian Civil War buffs~known as the Civil War Aficianados~to...

Our Vice- Moderator, Rev. Byron Wade, puts his finger on one of the causes of the decline of the PCUSA with his recent blog post: Is It Jus...

After about 6 months of effort the church's policy and procedures manual is finally finished! The session approved it at yesterday's...

Friday night's performance of The Elixir of Love was fabulous! The Houston Grand Opera production was very entertaining and fast-paced. ...

We're all all-flutter Chez QG about the Diva's debut tonight. She will perform the role of Gianetta in Donizetti's The Elixir of...

It's been a wild couple of days since coming back from our trip to Pennsylvania for the weekend. Please pray for my friend Martha, serio...

Woof Yourself! Olivia Here. Beatrice is a Big Tattletale. So there! And she isn't so good herself, either. Portia made us both spend Sat...

Woof! Beatrice here. This weekend QG and El Jefe were out of town so I went to stay with Portia and DK. But on Thursday and Friday they had ...

Sometimes it is really hard to say NO when you're asked to do things that you are very interested in and enjoy doing. Especially when th...

This is why recent visitors to our new house are calling it The Cloisters. Door to the "casita"-- the little guest house. Looking...

From Sunday's Houston Chronicle article Praise for Technology --Tweeting during worship services gets blessing of pastors : (Pastor Kerr...

Lauren Winner writes in today's Wall Street Journal that Swine Flu Spells the End of the Common Cup. When I saw the headline I immedia...

Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant is a novel set in a convent in 16th century Ferrara, Italy. While one of the stock characters of historical ...

Here's a heads-up for all my blogging friends from the QG Bureau of BlogLaw: the FTC now requires you to reveal your freebies if you wri...

And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gift...

Yesterday Babs, P-Dubya, Portia and I went to a cake tasting. This is one of the most fun parts of the wedding planning! The baker was recom...

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 ...