My Story About Christianity (WIMTM 10)
For the past 18 months I have been involved in a process toward being a Commissioned Minister of the United Church of Christ, through music. In June 2016, I present…
I sometimes think about the fact that we each have a vast library of memories that set us staring into space for a moment whenever we confront them. And so, I came up with this “Story About…” series, which will allow me to relate these stories of what the memories mean to me. I expect there to be entries about classical pieces, popular songs, movies, TV series or episodes; in short, a repository of recollections that have helped to define who I am.
For the past 18 months I have been involved in a process toward being a Commissioned Minister of the United Church of Christ, through music. In June 2016, I present…
It occurred to me at one point this Advent that I’ve never known what Christmas is like without the church being a vital part of it. We hear about the…
If I had to come up with a food or drink that needs to have a WIMTM post, it would have be tea (provided potatoes could not be reached for…
There’s been a lot of discussion in the press this week about the final episode of The Late Show with David Letterman. He’s been a regular of late night television…
Ten years have passed this week since my last grandparent died, my mother’s mother. I never had a chance to know the other three very well. Grandma was all I…
True to my intention in a post the other day, here’s another installment of my life’s experience with an aspect of Christmas that means a lot to me.
It occurred to me today that I haven’t produced anything in this series for a while. I could probably come up with a whole month’s worth of posts about what…
For just over a year now, I’ve taken great joy in listening to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts throughout the season on SiriusXM. It has become my sport, complete with commentary which seems to say “This is very, very important. Opera is very, very cool.”
Every four years, I enjoy the World Cup season. That sentence has been carefully crafted, so as not to be a lie. Instinctively, I’d have written “look forward to” or…
I’ve often said that I like to think about life as a series of forks, a sort-of Choose Your Own Adventure book, in which we’ve already made countless decisions, and…