Post-a-Day: Define “Important”

Today’s prompt:  What’s the single most important thing you accomplished in 2010? I know what it was for me, but let me take a minute here to define “important.” Most people’s definition of “important” seems to revolve around being successful in business, or in sports, or in entertainment (and if that’s the case, please get [...]

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Opposites Attract

I was browsing through old posts today, with an eye towards deleting some that were a little too personal — do banks still ask for your mother’s maiden name as a password to your account? — and reading them, I could see how people could guess I was from New York anyway:  They read just [...]

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In Memoriam

It was just around this time last year — a couple of days ago, actually — that I became aware of a remarkable blog, Lemmondrops, the story of an ordinary young woman happily married to the man of her dreams (she said), and pregnant with her second child when a routine medical exam detected a [...]

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Reflections on Jordanville

As of tomorrow evening, I will have been back a week from my annual effort to polish my meager musical talents.  This year, I was especially eager to focus on a slightly different aspect of Orthodox worship:  the Church Slavonic language that was especially formulated for worshipping God, in the Slavic tradition.  As the instructor [...]

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Still Frightful, But…

This is, what, the fourth or fifth Sunday with measurable snow?!  Last week, I missed church, and Father told me on Monday that there were four people in attendance, besides himself and his wife — and two of those were chanters.  This weekend, he cancelled Liturgy altogether.  A good thing he did, because the projected [...]

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Memory Eternal!

Two posts ago, I wrote about a young woman named Emilie.  I didn’t want to be specific about her condition, but since the link I used apparently didn’t work, I will say that I read about her on her blog, “lemmondrops” (http://lemmondrops.blogspot.com), and rather than writing about her, I provided the link because she herself [...]

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Faking Joy

One of the blogs I read regularly posted a link to Emilie’s blog.  I don’t often ask “Why?!” but this post has me shocked to the core. I think that for me, the worst aspect of this young woman’s situation is that she’s Catholic.  I suppose that’s better than being nothing, but all I can [...]

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Well, That Was Interesting…

I guess I should have written a post before attempting to insert the photo, but anyway, my last post shows this project halfway done.  I’m very happy with it, though I’d be happier if I’d been able to do anything more this week.   However, Life doesn’t work that way — poor old Dad fell on [...]

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The Death Room

I’ve been reflecting, between yesterday and today, that one year ago I curled up for a nap in the Morris chair, and woke up four hours later freezing cold on a bright summery day with a high of 75F.  A trip to the emergency room resulted in my being admitted, and one year ago today, [...]

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The Non-Post

As in, not a darn thing is happening, I’m just checking in. The church job is going well so far — just consists of the Sunday bulletin and the monthly newsletter, so far. Once Lent is over, I expect things will pick up. Not too much on my needlework. That’s the big downside to this [...]

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