Theological Essays, Devotionals, and Spiritual Naval-Gazing
This morning, Jared spotted the beginnings of a beautiful sunrise. I rushed for my camera, and I thought you might like to see what I captured. This October was difficult, but November has been better, in no small part because there’s a special beauty in the light now. I was hungry for beauty, and now … More November Sunrise
This is when I annually observe “I’m not at Maryland Sheep and Wool weekend.” Gosh, that sounds petulant, probably because it is. The last time I went to MDS&W, my five year old was two months old. This year I’m again post-partum, with a two week old on my shoulder this time. Post-partum is an … More Two Arms Full
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I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. I am enough of a perfectionist, with enough experience of my own failure and unnecessary self-criticism, to recognize when I’m setting myself up for failure. But I have signed myself up for a sort of daily thing, sort of starting at the New Year, and I am determined to … More Fifteen Minutes
This is the thousandth post on this blog, ever since I first started blogging about knitting in 2009. I’d blogged in fits and spurts before, about books and movies and whatever else was on my mind, but writing about what I was knitting was motivating and inspiring in a new way. It was a lonely, … More 1000
On a mid-December day in 2002, a few friends and I went to an opening-day showing of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. But we didn’t just go: we really went. We’d spent the previous several months deciding on characters, making costumes, buying accessories. It was the first and almost-only time I cosplayed. … More Reflections in the Mirror of Galadriel
A video report on my first Tour de Fleece, and a reflection on one of the things I often think about when I spin. … More A Priest Crafts: Episode 4, How TDF Went
