Well, here we are, a week later, back home, suffering through yet another primary night.I DID write like six or seven posts in my head during Anglican 1000, which was a resounding success from all I could see. I didn’t see any of it, actually. I ended up on a very comfortable couch in some sort of entrance like room in Christ Church, Plano, in between the library and the conference hall, desperately editing Matt’s live blogs hot off his... Read more
I’m down here in Plano with Matt while he blogs. Sunday evening, after feeding the children roast beef and salad and letting them watch ten minutes of the Fantastic Four or something awful, I forget, we shoved them in the car and spent an hour driving them to the various places they’re staying all this week. They are scattered across Binghamton in warm cozy houses with people prepared to stuff them with food and make them do school. Matt also... Read more
OneI’m on the last day of strep and thrush medicine. Knew I had strep! I just didn’t have it yet. It needed the thrush to bring it along. My doctor told me I could have my tonsils out but recommended waiting seven or eight years until my children are older and at which point he expects it will just go away on its own. But the idea of having strep 4 or 5 times a year for the next eight... Read more
Been rereading Screwtape. Found this to be really delightful. I think I warned you before that if your patient can’t be kept out of the Church, he ought at least to be violently attached to some party within it. I don’t mean on really doctrinal issues; about those, the more lukewarm he is the better. And it isn’t the doctrines on which we chiefly depend for producing malice. The real fun is working up hatred between those who say ‘mass’... Read more
How wrong was I? Me 100% sure I had strep. I DON’T!I have thrush. Isn’t that lovely? lovely lovely lovely lovey…So I’m taking some super horrible tasting pills and making plans to go back to the doctor in two days when its proved that they’re not working.And I’m embarrassingly watching the Oscars red carpet fluff. I haven’t seen any movies in at least 7 years so I’ll probably go to sleep as soon as the actual fluff starts. Just as... Read more
Matt brought me a cup of tea a whole hour earlier than usual. Does he feel I ought to be doing something in particular today?…… Doesn’t matter. I won’t be doing whatever it is because I’m 100% sure I have strep. Completely Sure.BUT! I have a well baby this morning anyway, so one way or another I’m sure I can get a whole building of doctors to prescribe me something, like the soon removal of my tonsils, or whatever it... Read more
The total lack of blogging is not because I was actually writing this talk but because I was feeling guilty about not writing it and feeling I couldn’t very well blog when I should be writing it. etc. etc. Anyway, here’s the audio, which is vaguely different than the text here. And also, I said out loud, “Revelation Chapter One” when I obviously meant “Twenty-One”. Have a great weekend! Citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven I was tasked tonight to... Read more
Me: K- will be here around 6:45 tomorrow.Matt: What! Why!Me, startled: To watch the children.Matt: At 6:45?! Why?Me: So we can go to IV, because I have to give the talk…Matt, collapsing with relief: Oh. Oh. Oh that’s good. I thought you meant 6:45 in the morning.Me: She’s going to bring some laundry, as payment. Matt: What? I’m all done with the laundry! Why is she doing laundry?Me, continuing startled: She needs to do some laundry. Its the least we... Read more
Didn’t in the least mean to drop out of this tiny universe for a week. Just got busy, I guess with…let me see…as I search my foggy mind…I caught a coldand so did all the childrenand the baby turned one (OMW, I don’t know how to cope with this terrible fact)and Romulus lost his first tooth (OMW, I don’t know how to cope with this terrible fact, his round freckled face and a whole tooth gone, he can’t possibly be... Read more
We all watched the Superbowl together. After making it through an entire season of football I felt it would be bad form to miss this game and SO didn’t go to sleep in the middle of the first quarter and wake up in the middle of the fourth, (which is how I’ve managed to “see” an entire season of football). Anyway, we ate guacamole and chips, pizza, which Gladys helped make, tater-tots and mayonnaise (not me, I didn’t eat the... Read more
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