My friend from the Palo Alto Children's Theatre, Julianne Miller, has been in a hospital in Los Angeles since early last week in a coma. I've been following her progress via LiveJournal (thank you, Brian), though a lot of the specific medical details don't mean that much to me since I don't know what they are. But basically she had some sort of ( Read more... )

If you haven't yet seen the film, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, I urge you to see it as soon as possible. Whether you have seen it or not, I also urge you to go to this website: www.climatecrisis.net. Every citizen of the world should see this movie ( Read more... )

I talked briefly to my mother this morning, and she told me about the unopened bottle of wine sitting in our house. A few weeks ago, my father commanded a group of rowdy teenagers across the street to be quiet in the middle of the night--he actually walked inside the house because they couldn't hear him from outside. To make up for their behavior, ( Read more... )

I found out from Bennington that next term I will be living in Merck! I'm in room 211. Hopefully I should enjoy a relatively quiet semester there. I'm excited to move back to Merck, especially with two new awesome house chairs. I'm also just relieved to not be living in Welling anymore. Since I'm no longer house chair, it would feel odd for me to ( Read more... )

Church is a subject that more and more people are sneering at nowadays. Indeed, many people are looking at church with skeptical eyes. They ask themselves, "How can church be truth when what it says is proven utterly false by science?" And they've got a good point, and I agree. A lot of religion is contradicted by science, and science is the more ( Read more... )

I'm working late tonight, making some phone calls to people. Here on the 20th floor, the sky over Boston is a bright pink, with the light gliding through the clouds. It looks like God's heaven shining a message of love and peace into the sky and down to Earth. I wonder if every sunset here this summer has looked like this and I just haven't noticed ( Read more... )

One advantage of my job is that I get to read through a bunch of cool articles about Christian Science. Here's one I read today, that just appeared in the Washington Post this past Friday, July 14. It's by Diane Hayden ( Read more... )

Today has been a great day! I've had this hymn stuck in my head for some reason, and I thought I'd post the lyrics because I like them ( Read more... )

In the past few weeks, I have managed to survive a somewhat boring office job at The Mother Church, while enjoying the time I get for spiritual growth. I have been annoyed, however, by the large presence of people who either went to, or currently attend, Principia College--the college for Christian Scientists. Every single TMC Youth intern goes to ( Read more... )

I'm working ten hour days at The Mother Church, which is exhausting, and it's only been one week! The upside is that I only work four days a week, so I get a three day weekend, but I can tell that by the time Thursday rolls around I'll be struggling to stay awake at work. I'm working from 8am to 6pm Monday through Thursday ( Read more... )