Category: Real Life

• Endings and Beginnings

  photo by Dana Ross Martin An ending and a beginning overlapped for me recently. In the same weekend that I said “good-bye” to a dear friend who moved to another state, I joined a new retreat ministry and blessed the threshold of a new beginning. Experiencing these two events back-to-back felt, at first, like emotional…

  June 14, 2017

• Hospitalization

  I have never been hospitalized as a sick person until now; only well with babe in arm, grateful for food prepared and luminous face to behold.  But being poked and prodded and asked for bowel history feels different without a wriggling byproduct to render it all worthwhile I like to believe circumstances, even unpleasant ones,…

  March 23, 2015

• Color Me Pink Warning

  My writing seems to color the world deeper shades of interesting when I’m feeling life’s bitter sweetness.  Today, I’m happy.  Not just content, but pop out of your skin happy.  And everything I try to write reads pink… cotton candy, artificial sweetener pink.  Ick!  So, you’ll have to suffer through with me until some rain…

  March 12, 2015

• Today’s Icon: Jeff Miller a Priest of the Almost-Not-Yet

  Today’s Icon is a farewell gift to my friend and teacher, Jeffrey Miller (aka Mef, Jeff, Jeffers, assorted other nicknames perhaps unsuitable for a G-rated blog).  Jeff is moving to New Orleans to follow the muse that has led him through death and back (sometimes in the span of 24 hours). Jeff wears many hats:…

  March 5, 2015

• 7 Reasons Why I Dislike Lists

  I noticed most of the articles circulating around my social media circles are in list form.  Is it more appealing to read a list than a story?  Maybe numbering something makes it seem more authoritative.  I’m going to give it a try!  My first list… “Why I Dislike Lists.” Let me first say that I…

  February 27, 2015