A Different Street

I’m back from a two-night trip that was very emotionally tiring.  I am so glad to be home!  When even your home airport makes you feel joyful, it’s a good bet you need to stay home awhile.

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Most parents know that having children puts you in deeply embarrassing positions quite often.   Generally, I’ve gotten used to this phenomenon, and have learned to suck it up and deal … until I hit a deal-breaker today.
My son has recently become enamored of a book entitled “The Day My Butt Went Psycho,” and he wanted [...]

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Milton Brasher-Cunningham writes about intentionally keeping hope alive during challenging times.

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I’ve always been drawn to the idea of the wounded healer: it makes a kind of cosmic sense that our wounds should help us build compassion and understanding for others. Here’s an example from the Portland, Oregon “Willamette Week,” in a story about a Northwest “rock camp”:
The Paul Green School strives to be [...]

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Christmas has (mostly) passed with little emotion on my part other than anxiety, and then relief that my obligations have (mostly) been discharged. I didn’t make the 11 pm service last night, as Santa’s little darlings did not fall asleep until about 10:50 pm. Sigh!
As an antidote to my spiritual inertia, here is [...]

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… and to all a good night!

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I recently sat through a set of four short plays that were written, performed, directed, and crewed exclusively by 6th and 7th grade Drama students. Comic relief was supplied partly by an obviously last-minute decision to supply the actors with wired microphones — the chaos that caused simply cannot be described.
Each of the plays [...]

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… if in fact it hasn’t already gone down. Conspicuous consumption, indeed.

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1.   Leave a significant portion of your Christmas to-do list to finish the week before Christmas.
2.   Have everyone in your family, including yourself, contract a nasty GI tract virus that keeps the kids out of school four days that week.

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