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Dublin throws diverse St. Patrick’s Day parade

I don’t know what our “official” measurement is, but I went out with a yardstick and measured 10 inches (25 cm) in the front yard, 11.5 inches (29 cm) in the back. The top two inches of that is sleet … Continue reading →

Nuggets found whilst trying to pull together yet another, particularly recalcitrant, church service for this coming Sunday: “Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” – Susan Ertz “Life is … Continue reading →

Excellent, sympathetic and accurate article about Wicca, and the Army chaplain who was removed from Iraq and the chaplain corps by the Army when he attempted to change from Pentacostal Christian to Wiccan. Chaplain’s faith in crisis What’s that they … Continue reading →

A minor thing, to be sure…but among the very last bits I wanted for the final edit was some fact-checking on actual weather conditions for the time and place (southeastern Massachusetts, April-August 2004, to be precise). I have been going … Continue reading →

The furnace conked out last night–it had seemed to be noisier than usual, and there was a pronounced smell of oil (not gas, mind you, heating oil) when it ran, so I wasn’t totally surprised. I checked the switch and … Continue reading →

This article link was posted to the self-publishing list: The Ugly Truth about being a Writer. Referring to the fact that 200,000 books per year are published in the United States, Marion Gropen of the self-publishing e-list said: It’s easy … Continue reading →

Wow. I personally know three people who are listed in the IMDb! Yesterday I got an e-mail from the Ashby church. A few years back, the church keyboardist (usually piano) was a very gifted high school, then music school student … Continue reading →

It’s gotten to be that inevitable point in late winter when I am more or less living on green cabbage because produce has gotten so expensive. 🙁 (although this year, I’ve also been eating a lot of grapes and cantaloupe … Continue reading →