Giving Ourselves Permission to Change
March marks the two-year anniversary of this global pandemic. March 23, specifically, marks the anniversary of when life in my county came screeching to a halt with a shelter-in-place order…
A Few Final Helps for Getting Through the Bleak Midwinter or Other Tough Patches
As I was wrapping up my thoughts on this string of posts I realized there are two other ideas I wanted to share with you. They are not holidays, as…
I Solemnly Swear I Am Up To No Good
We end our season of midwinter holidays with Harry Potter Day, or perhaps more accurately, Harry Potter Weekend. It is another movie marathon, although we don’t quite watch them all.…
Happy Chance Day!
When I first enlisted their help with holiday making, the first answer I heard from our boys was: “We want a gambling day!” My goodness, I thought. This was not…
Happy Crap Day!
I am a mom to three wonderful boys. This means, among other things, that our home has a lot of bathroom humor. There was a time when I tried to…
Happy Meh Day!
You have to be careful with your pronunciation on this one. I was describing it to my colleagues in a virtual meeting the other week, and people were like, “What…
Happy Hunger Games
When I first heard the plot of The Hunger Games, I thought I would never read it. It sounded much too dark for me. Not the first or last time…
Happy Martin Luther King Day!
I did not grow up celebrating Martin Luther King Day. If memory serves me right, I experienced him as a man largely ignored, or smeared. So I had a good…
Saint Aelred’s Day
I’m indebted to my Christian gay friends over at Spiritual Friendship for the discovery of St. Aelred’s day. January 12, or St. Aelred’s day, remembers the life of Aelred of…
Getting Through the Bleak Midwinter
“Mommy, remember when we did holidays every Saturday? When are we going to do that again?” “Just after Christmas, sweetie. Just after Christmas.” I was so tickled that he remembered…