My husband and I planned our own wedding. We wanted the wedding to be a low-key, fun affair, but it turns out that planning low-key, fun affairs for 130 guests requires an enormous amount of effort. I traveled to vendor after vendor, choosing tents and lights and tables and chairs and table cloths and forks. [...]
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Transfiguration, Year B, 2009
22Feb09I occasionally wish that I lived in an earlier era. Now, granted, I would want that era to have women’s rights and flushing toilets, so perhaps what I really want is a mythical earlier era. In that imaginary era, I would never have seen a special effect. So that, when I read the Bible, I [...]
Epiphany 4, Year B, 2009
02Feb09When I was ten, my father got diagnosed with high cholesterol. My mother was the cook in our house and within days she was deep in the American Heart Association cookbook and ordering a subscription to Cooking Light. Gone were the omelets, steaks, and sour cream from our lives. They were replaced by cheerios, pasta, [...]
Epiphany I, Year B, 2009
11Jan09My husband, Matt, just finished reading The Life of Pi. I read it a few years ago and don’t remember all the details, but when I began thinking about this week’s readings, I kept coming back to the main image of The Life of Pi, which is the image of a young boy, stuck on [...]
Epiphany 2, Year A, 2008
20Jan08A dear friend of mine recently moved to New York City. She is a gifted actress, recently graduated from UVA, and is working in a legal office by day and acting in a play by night. Every few months she sends long, gossipy emails about her new life filled with stories of life in a [...]
