In the "things are looking up" category ( Read more... )

It seems that my housing situation is progressing faster than expected ( Read more... )

Passing on the latest news from South DakotaThe President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecelia Fire Thunder, is incensed over the South Dakota abortion ban. And she is uniquely in position to respond ( Read more... )

Erp ( Read more... )

Here, as promised, are my answers to the "Truths and Lies" guessing game, with bits of the stories that go with them.

( Behind the cut, in case anyone else wants to try guessing before they look... )

I thought I would join in this meme, if a bit belatedly: Below are listed ten statements about me. Six of them are true, and the other four are entirely made up. Can you guess which ones are lies ( Read more... )

(This emerged from my head a few hours ago, in the process of writing a letter to a friend. It seemed worth posting for more general consumption.)I'm enjoying a lazy Saturday, currently curled up in the papasan watching Violet chew on a god ( Read more... )

Tonight, I was gifted with an unexpected insight about my own sense of calling, an insight that suggests a path. The short version is: I've been handicapping myself by thinking of my vocation in terms of ministry and professional religious service. As far as that path goes, I've hit a dead end, and I've been feeling stumped by that dead end for ( Read more... )

Every now and then, I realize that my emotional/social comfort zones have come to be a little different from most people's ( Read more... )

Home-birthers have been saying this for ages, but the scientific community just caught up: telling women when to push during labor is unnecessary, and may cause problemsA couple of recent studies have found that the classic hospital model of labor-coaching, where a medical professional urgently tells a laboring woman to push at certain times, may ( Read more... )