SPECIAL FOR WOMEN’s HISTORY MONTH — NOW BANNED BY PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER It was a great day for an “overground railroad” escape. Maybe not such a great day to die, but for some there was no escaping that. Imagine we were in Aiken, South Carolina: a pretty town, near Augusta and the Georgia border, with … Continue reading Remembering Friend Martha Schofield & Her Courageous Leading
New York Times: Excerpts from, Why Churches Should Drop Their Online Services By Tish Harrison Warren — Jan. 30, 2022 (My comments follow.) Over the past two years a refrain has become common in churches and other religious communities: “Join us in person or online.” I was a big proponent of that “or online” part. In … Continue reading Drop Online Church?? Bad Idea of the Week (and it’s only Monday morning)
Eighteen years ago yesterday (or maybe it was today; dates get fuzzy), we had a fire in the attic at Quaker House: very old wiring got overloaded. We were lucky, though. Our friend Sean Crane was visiting, and he raced up the attic stairs with a fire extinguisher. By the time the engines got there, … Continue reading Eighteen Years & Counting
if you saw this guy wandering the streets with his weatherbeaten sign, it was probably me. And . . . The original of this Far Side cartoon is much funnier, but it doesn’t keep me awake. Besides . . . Since last time I saw the same therapist, but it didn’t help. More about this … Continue reading It’s Almost Here, Again . . .
So I went to COSTCO the other day, looking for this and that, but not a rotisserie chicken. I really like their roasters: plump, juicy, and at 3 pounds for $4.99 the very model of a major-league loss leader. But I had recently had chicken, so this time I was just rolling past the big … Continue reading Flying the Coop: Where Have All the Chickens Gone???