Author Archives: Rebecca
The American problem
I posted the following at a great little blog run by a great priest whose easy-to-understand contrasts between Orthodoxy and every other form of Christianity has had great impacts on my family members. He wrote a blog post about the need to go local, to learn to take care of one’s self, to be sufficient [...]
On holding together
Michael Plumadore pleaded guilty yesterday. I’m not going to tell you what he did, because I’m tired of writing about what he did. I am so incredibly grateful for a guilty plea, I cannot tell you how much. That trial would have been hideous. There are no other words for it. And I fear our [...]
On trying not to be the white rabbit
Vanity are all the works and quests of man, and they have no being after death has come.
Choosing what is better
This has been the strangest Lent. I have never felt so busy, so pressured, in a long time. And it’s all good and necessary stuff — the puppy, teaching a class at a local Evangelical university, a catechumen/goddaughter, parish council. Then, interspersed in there, the necessary and welcome services of Great Lent. I feel like [...]
My song of Ascent
Psalm 119 (or 126 to you Western types) To the Lord in my affliction I cried out, and He heard me. O Lord, deliver my soul from unjust lips, And from a deceitful tongue… Woe is me! My sojourning was prolonged; I dwelt with the tents of Kedar. My soul sojourned a long time as [...]
(hangs head)
Um, hi faith. It’s me, Rebecca. Yeah, I know, you haven’t seen or heard much from me lately, except at church. Did you know I got engaged? Yeah, I did. I think I talked to God about it, but I don’t remember. I don’t do well with bringing the big things up or remembering them [...]
Lenten resolution
Been awhile, I know. Life in the new Helo era…we spend our evenings wrestling over knots and stuffies, chasing tennis balls and each other. It’s a good time, but I’m a bit old for it, I think. Lent starts in about 36 hours, after a Liturgy and Forgiveness Vespers. I’m teaching again, working with a [...]
I speak dog
It’s been almost two weeks since I came home and found Sunshine unable to stand and in the midst of some type of seizure. It’s been nearly two weeks since I had to put her to sleep. It’s been almost one week since I acquired another dog, this one a 25-pound fluff ball that is [...]
On my friend
Ed. note: Sunshine died today (Jan. 13) at about 2:20. She died peacefully, with her head in my arms, hearing as she drifted off what a wonderful and good dog she was. Once upon a time, I used to write obituaries. (Most real reporters have. If you haven’t, well…) Sometimes I still do. Big newspapers [...]
On a familiar theme
Or actions have consequences, late 2011 edition. I’m sure you hadn’t heard the news, what with the holidays and the recess appointments and the Iowa clown car, I mean caucus. So in case you didn’t, here you go. The tauntaun made a bad choice New Year’s day and ate Princess Leia. As my 3-year-old nephew [...]
