Inside the Minds of Valerie and Mike (and Anna)
It has been a while since I've posted anything. I've wanted to. I've had ideas. I just haven't found the time (when I wasn't entirely exhausted) to actually do so. I spent this morning cleaning out my email inbox (got it down from 2500 entries with 350 unread to only 50 and none unread.)... Continue Reading →
It's May. So it's spring. Thus we're nearing the end of the school year. And this year, the end of the school year in this house promises to be more chaotic than most years. With an 8th grader and a 12th grader, it's going to double the extra chaos. Plans are being worked out and... Continue Reading →
Yesterday was so much fun! It was the Humanities Showcase for our New York documentaries that we made from our New York trip back in the fall. Each NYC group created a main documentary with a professional interview, a history documentary, and a lower Manhattan documentary, and a midtown documentary. For both the lower and... Continue Reading →
What a great ending to my venture into the 2014 Lenten photo-a-day discipline. I wasn't sure where I was going to go with this today. I was ready to ruminate about our eagerness to move on from the self-reflection of Lent to the joy of Easter resurrection, but having to spend this day between the... Continue Reading →
Here it is. My final confirmation homework assignment from my last confirmation retreat. Its been a long 3 years at times, but they have all been good and fruitful. In this assignment we had to create a single Belief statement after looking at the Apostle's Creed. It was kind of challenging to narrow down to... Continue Reading →
When most Christians are asked what they feel is the holiest day in the church year, I suspect most will say Easter, with Christmas coming in a fairly close second. For me, the most holy day of the year is today. Good Friday, not Easter, is when Christ showed the world who he really... Continue Reading →
Another day where I woke up with a solid plan for my daily photo. This one was going to be so easy. I had already planned on making bread today to see if I couldn't fix my standard recipe to get it a little softer (hint I heard on NPR). But then, life... Continue Reading →
Here was another word that was hard to photograph. Solemnity is not a visual thing. It is a state of mind, a feeling of importance, an intentionality. We mark the important milestones in our lives with solemn ceremonies. We observe the cyclic markers in our seasons with solemn holidays and holy days. We approach... Continue Reading →
Today's word was really easy for me to "get." I am in the home stretch of this Lenten photo-a-day discipline (day 42 of the "40" days of Lent to be more precise). There have been days I just wasn't "into it." There were days I asked why I should keep doing this. And interestingly enough,... Continue Reading →
We live in a very loud world. And only a fraction of this noise is auditory. We are bombarded with sounds and images and tastes and all sorts of causes vying for or attention. Every once in a while, we need to find a quiet place in our lives to allow ourselves to clear the... Continue Reading →
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