Lord have mercy.  My thesis is going to be about 35 pages by the time I'm done.  (With the recommendation being 25 from my department and 20-ish from my advisor ( Read more... )

A new year (ie, birthday) resolution of sorts: This year, I am going to love - truly love - my body.  This is not something I have every been able to do before, but I've been trying really, really hard of late and making some good progress.  And this includes eating well and running and biking and walking for transport as well as exercise.  And of ( Read more... )

It's been an excellent start to year 23 (I'm 22, so it's year 23, right ( Read more... )

One thing that is on my mind lately - that I really hadn't thought about until recently - is this: How did the women pull themselves out of bed that morning to go to the tomb?  They didn't go expecting what they found, they went looking to dress a body.  And then someone told them not to look for the dead among those who live ( Read more... )

This will make more sense if you've seen The Life of Brian.  (But if not, I'll post the original video below.)

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What have the Romans ever done for us?

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God bless these clever people.  :)  Happy Friday (Good though it may be).

Dear friend,

I am thrilled to introduce the accomplished woman I have asked to join me on the ticket to become the next Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota - Senator Patricia Torres Ray.

I have a bold vision for Minnesota, one that includes truly universal health care and smart investments in our state’s human and physical infrastructure, one ( Read more... )

I have 8 pages of thesis.  It's not very good, but it's a start.  Draft due Wednesday.  (Which is real soon.  I'm not sure I'll have a full draft done by then.)

30 years ago, an unassuming man was shot while celebrating mass in a hospital chapel.  The shooter worked under the auspices of his government (and ours).  The martyr's crime was speaking out against poverty and repression.

Obviously, this could be any number of people from any number of places.  Today, it is Oscar Romero.  (San Romero de America ( Read more... )

I'm home, I'm clean, I'm no longer on the train (though I  am still rocking back and forth a bit - terribly bumpy ride on the way back).  Sipping on some tea.

And I'm looking at plane tickets to go back to Holden before I leave for Central America.

I'm also wearing clothes that still smell like the cedar we worked with in the shop.  (I'm at my ( Read more... )

I'm leaving in about 12 hours for Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat/intentional community center in the Cascade Mountains (in Washington state).  I am ridiculously excited.  I have a friend from CGE who is working there right now, so I get to see her in but a couple of days.  (The train trip out there is a two-day experience.  It's also when I'm ( Read more... )