Friday, January 31, 2025

Odds and Ends at the End of January

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I have been grading for hours, but happily, I got the first essays from my online classes graded.  I feel a bit brain dead, so let me just c...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

First Funeral of a Parishioner

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Yesterday, after I finished banana bread baking and sermon writing, we got in the car and headed across the mountain to Faith Evangelical Lu...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Banana Bread Baking

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This week is another unusual one, with unexpected schedule changes.  So far, every week this semester has had unexpected schedule changes, s...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Watching "Little House on the Prairie" at 3 a.m.

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It's been a long several days in our household.  My spouse goes in for a colonoscopy this morning, and instead of just having a 24 hour ...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Weaning Myself Away from Amazon

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I just bought three poetry books from the University of Pittsburgh Press instead of Amazon.  I expected the shipping cost to make me change ...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

Poem Made of Abandoned Lines

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This morning, I decided to play with lines from rough drafts that I abandoned, never turning them into finished drafts.  I opened documents ...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Report on a Week that Had an Inauguration, a Snow Day, and a Return to Seminary Classes

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I had planned to go to the grocery store yesterday.  But when I left the house, I didn't realize that Trump had planned a trip to Ashevi...