Category: relationship
-
Exclusive holidays…why Christmas and Thanksgiving SHOULD overlap
There are a lot of holidays that really don’t go together. St Patrick’s day and Halloween, for example. There are even a few that bump up against each other that don’t quite go together either, like St Patty’s and Easter (some years). Many argue that Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas don’t…
-
The New Introvert- or rather "Net-rovert"
“It requires more work on the part of networked individuals to make their way successfully in an always-on, quickly moving world, and a new set of norms and skills-just as the transition from rural, agrarian life to urban, industrial life required.” In his book, NetSmart, How to Thrive Online, Howard…
-
The Hopeful Side of Experience
The other day I posted about how experience and being ‘connected’ are two very different things on the internet. Although I meant every word of what I said, there is another side to the story, a side that I like to call hopefulness. The sunny side. I live my life…
-
Does connection mean experience?
Well I am “connected”, does that count?I tweet, I am on facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, classmates, Skype, and cafe-mom to name a fewI have learned by blackboard on tiger-tracks, on myluthernet and more with classmates in Turkey, Norway, Australia and China.I blog on blogger, yelp, and google+. I share books and…
-
What does real love look like? Seminary, Cohorts and M.E.
What does love with forbearance and forgiveness look like? What does love lived with passion and open eyes look like? Can the two be one? My cohort may never forgive me for this one, but I pray they ‘get’ it… In fact, I am pretty sure they will. In my…
-
He was Just an ICE man.
“He was just an iceman” When George Marion Mason died in the mid 1940’s the crowd spilled out onto the street in front of the mortuary. When they drove to the cemetery, there were over 150 cars in the processional and at least that many at the cemetery when they…
-
How I met Lance
So I am at this fundraiser for our youth group in Germany. We are hosting a Mexican dinner and it is near the end and we are done serving so we all sit down to eat and watch the slides from the last trip (to Spain). I am 16 and…
-
Why so many Christmas Cards?
My beloved looked at me like I had turned into a hoarder. I have over 400 blank cards ready to be addressed and sent this year as soon as the Calendar says November 20. I know there must be shock on your faces too. But my Christmas cards serve as…
-
Amid the boxes and packing paper
Lately it seems my blogs have ended up in my seminary blog, but today, this is just about me and my life. Not about how it works with seminary. Today, it is about the fact I sit in this house, as it is almost empty of our things; things that…
-
facebook gave me roots
We hear it all the time, “facebook ruined my marriage, my friendship, got me fired…”. Well apart from the fact that a computer program cannot do those things, I am here to say that facebook has done something really good, really true, of value, of moment, in my life. I…
Mistress of Divinity 