Rethinking “Rethinking” I have been struggling with dealing with my emotional response to the events of the last two weeks. There is a...

New Year, New Me We are approaching the time of year when we acknowledge the completion of another Earth circuit around the Sun (Terra...

What am I waiting for? It is the beginning of December 2020 and the second week of Advent in the Christian liturgical year (now the third...

Incarnating the Incarnation Today is the first Sunday of Advent in the year 2020 CE. In the tradition of the Christian Church, it marks...

Escaping the Bubble or my Søren Kierkegaard moment In the last post, I talked about who I was. I wanted to be able to define myself from...

Leave Taking We come to say good night, Let us close our eyes Imagine that we are standing next to one another in a sacred circle. Feel...

Defining who I am In my last two posts, I spent some time talking about my journey and sharing some of my family histories. It is easy to...

Who am I? Part 2 Or What is a Celtic-Nordic-Germanic American anyway? So, I promised to give you the real story that I intended to tell...

Lament of an invading weed in another’s garden Ripped from the soil of my homeland Pruned and reshaped to serve the foreign master Denied...

Who am I? I am a big fan of French literature. My favorite novel of all time is The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I am also...

IIn my Spiritual Formation class, we have been talking about Spiritualities that come from the indigenous peoples of North America, from...

You poor unfortunate soul You poor unfortunate soul My great-grandmother, my father's paternal grandmother, has the saddest life story of...

But I don't want to play nice! I said that I would have a second part to my last post. In these days of ossified positions and...

I saw the meme above and shared it on my Facebook feed, which I often do. I usually get likes and hearts from like-minded friends and...

How does one start a blog at this point in one’s life? Often I have been told that I tend to begin stories in the middle. Sometimes the...