Facebook has given me pretty much what I wanted. The new homepage feels a lot like the old Live Feed, without so much information I didn't want to see, thanks in large part to the ability to more closely filter the types of information shown ( Read more... )

Early this morning, by the clock, I watched Archbishop Desmond Tutu talking with Craig Ferguson. He was the only guest on the show, and the conversation was excellent. I think my favorite thing about the Archbishop is his lovely sense of humor. I am sure that helps him quite a bit as he goes through life, doing service and inspiring people ( Read more... )

I am so very glad that my life is such that I could devote much of today to paying attention to history. History years and years in the making. I have witnessed history before, but this is one of the happiest, most joy-filled events ever ( Read more... )

This entry was written and posted in 2005. It's one of my favorites, and I've reprinted it for Epiphany this year on "Becky Says...." Over there, I added a few paragraphs about Holidailies, which really don't need posting here.To the Christians, Epiphany is the day when the Magi made it all the way to the endpoint of their journey and saw the baby ( Read more... )

Years and years ago, my mother taught me one of the most important life lessons I ever learned: that no one on earth was better than I, and no one beneath me. That has served me well ( Read more... )

I've had my head buried in my Rebeccaworks site, adding a new product that I love a lot and hope buyers will too (scrubbers). And I've put on hiatus the more expensive of the baby blankets, because it wasn't selling. I want to concentrate on small pieces, so for at least a while I've quit suggesting that the baby blanket pattern also works well ( Read more... )

My first reaction the other day when I heard that Rick Warren had been asked to give the Invocation at President-elect Obama's inauguration was quite frankly relief that it wasn't going to be any member of the Billy Graham hierarchy, specifically that it wasn't Franklin Graham. ( more... )

I wrote this entry three years ago. I love it, and think it deserves to be repeated.I remember Christmas Eve ( Read more... )

This is one of my favorite things.

Until I walked into a store one late December day twenty-some years ago, I had never seen a flute-playing angel. But because I play flute, I had always hoped to find one.

I keep her on the shelf by my piano all year.


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I had another visit this morning from a couple of women looking for Hispanics. Neither woman said the name of the organization they represented, but I'm fairly sure I recognized one of them from a recent visit, and on that one the visitors announced they were from a religious organization and were trying to make sure Hispanics knew they were ( Read more... )