Reflections
A Haiku Prayer for Cedar Rapids After the Storm
A Haiku Prayer for Cedar Rapids After the Storm More than a week week since the derecho hit Cedar Rapids Iowa. Some of those folks still don't have power. That crazy strong straight line wind...
My Late Grandmother’s Gin Glass
As the story goes, when I was a very little girl, I marched over to grandmother as she relaxed in her easy chair, and lifted her water glass off the side table. I took a sloppy, toddler swig. And...
Get Ahead Summer Greek 2020 – The Alphabet
I'm the first to admit the Greek this fall at seminary has me more than a little worried. Until just a few years ago, Koine Greek (New Testament Greek) was taught as a summer intensive prior to the...
Green Lent 2020 ~ Light and Darkness
All are from the dust, and to dust all return ~ Ecclesiastes 3:20 Dust you are and to dust you shall return ~ Gen 3:19 My family lived lots of places when I was growing up. I recall geography...
Teach Me, Lord
That Inconvenient Brilliant Thought
I keep a notebook. A few notebooks. Well, several notebooks. I have them in my car, my handbag, my work bag, my gym bag. My notebooks live on my desk and various horizontal surfaces . And on my...