Quotidian Grace

I'm excited that we completed the landscaping in the back yard of our new house just in time for Thanksgiving! Since I miss having a poo...

Over at Portia's blog, Olivia is demanding a recount !

Go over to Presbyterian Bloggers today to read my post about the Bible Study Discussion program at my church and hopefully, a good discussi...

(From Rev. Mike Cole's State of the Presbytery address last Saturday available at www.pbyofnewcovenant.org ) THIS WORLD IS: tired of war...

Portia bought Olivia an outfit for Christmas this weekend, so of course Beatrice had to try it on, too. Who wears it better? OLIVIA? or BEAT...

Last Thursday and Friday I was on retreat with fellow Bible Study Discussion leaders from our church. Our leader was my good friend Mary Mar...

Our presbytery had its last meeting of the year today. Attendance was the highest we have seen in a long time, perhaps because of the overt...

Monday at the CE Chicks luncheon, we discovered that the father of one of our group was a member of WWII's fabled 442nd Regimental Comb...

You can't blame a girl for going home to Mom and Dad after suffering a botched hysterectomy; having her husband leave her for another ma...

It's still two weeks from Thanksgiving, but my mailbox overfloweth with catalogues featuring Christmas decorations. And that made me sta...

The Texas Governor ordered all flags flown at half staff in the state in honor of the soldiers killed yesterday at Fort Hood by one of their...

~PresbyPolityGeek Alert: this post is about synods~ Two interesting overtures and one proposal about synods emerged in the last couple of we...

Going through the mail after being away for the weekend, I opened a thank-you note from a recent bride who is a long-time friend of Portia a...

Here are some photos from our weekend trip to Springfield with El Jefe's Civil War Aficianados group. The wax figures of the Lincoln fam...

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...