Pepper served in the Navy for 3 years & 6 months, including the Bay of Pigs incident and the assassination of President Robert F. Kennedy ( Read more... )

I have gotten back in touch with one of my favorite foods: cinnamon raisin bagels, toasted and with peanut butter ( Read more... )

Today, I haven't felt very good physically. After sleeping some 10 hours, I woke with a headache. And I still needed a 2-hour nap in the afternoon. I wish I wasn't on the verge of a headache and feeling generally blah all day, but I've been in pretty good spirits, despite that ( Read more... )

I have really been getting into the Torchwood TV series and Captain Jack Harkness, the lead of its ensemble cast, played by John Barrowman. Barrowman plays a dreamy man from the 51st Century, who has very few sexual hangups and is attracted to people of many genders, sexes, skin colors, and even members of alien races. And they're usually ( Read more... )

Our home was last owned by someone from the tropics. The 2nd floor hallway and kitchen had 1970s paneling which they painted yellow, with brick trim around the doors. When we moved in, we painted most of the rest of that floor, but left the kitchen and hallway more or less as they were ( Read more... )

Because I have neglected LJ, I haven't said that my job went away at the end of February ( Read more... )

Bad: I felt poorly this afternoon and took a nap ( Read more... )

I started attending FirstParishCambridge (.org) in September, and discovered that the Adult Spiritual Education Committee had decided last Spring to focus on developing a Small Group Ministry program and was just getting started. So, I was able to get in on the ground floor ( Read more... )

Our Interim Parish Minister, Anita Farber-Robinson, had a good sermon yesterday. Congratulations to mothers, and... to Gaia, our Mother Earth. This is especially apt in the context that last year the congregation voted to become a Green Sanctuary. Yay, Anita!

In response to mmmmtino's sermon, Resurrection and Rebirth, bear_left asks "Is the separate section for children a common structure of Easter sermons, either for UUs or for Christians in general?"I haven't attended enough non-UU Christian churches to venture an opinion ( Read more... )