I have always struggled with the idea that Easter can exist without Palm Sunday and Holy Week. For many, many years growing up we would only attend Easter Sunday services. We never really went to the three services that separate Palm Sunday from Easter Sunday. I did not really appreciate the joy of Easter morning at the church until I found my way into the Holy Week services in college. The Great Three Days - the Triduum - help to frame the picture of Easter Sunday and the re

Pillsbury finally caught up with real life. Pillsbury cookie dough rolls have been around since the 1950s, so all my life. As a child, I would eat more dough than actual cookies. (I have since found out that the sugar content is higher in uncooked dough, so the sugar rush makes sense.) Is there a female who didn't regularly have a roll of cookie dough in the refrigerator, strictly to be eaten uncooked? About 10 years ago I started to hear the warnings that eating raw cookie d

Anticipation - excitement - “I just can’t wait” It seems like we are at this point in the pandemic of anticipation. The anticipation of getting your vaccine. The anticipation of this all ending and our lives beginning anew. The anticipation of Lent ending and the dawn of Easter. What do you anticipate? Perhaps going out to eat with your friends that you have only seen on the screen for the last year? For me, the anticipation of return to in person worship opportunities is rig

I'm rich. At least I am according to my emails last week. I am owed: $2 million from an unnamed individual for "charity, less privileged peoples orphanages work" $5 million from a cancer patient for "charity/my dying wish" $27.9 million from the United Bank of Africa, if I give them my name/address/telephone number $3.2 million from a 68-year-old woman with cancer. The money is "to help the poor, needy, and less privileged among your congregations/society. give attention

I have always loved reading articles that equate a messy desk to genus level intelligence. Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison - they all had messy desks. To the annoyance of my husband, Craig, I proudly join these folks in having a messy desk. In fact, I might get special treatment for having both an unkempt desk in my study at the church AND at home! Does that make me a double genius? But never fear - I know where everything is (most of the time). The pan