A week ago, a new worship leader arrived at Saint Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church. Because our transition priest, Father Chris O’Connor, was called to another ministry after being with us for sixteen months, we needed to have a second transition priest. The new priest, Father Tom Hawkins, whose title is worship leader, is now settling in […]

Today’s blogging prompt is “ceramics and pottery.”  I really love ceramics and pottery. For a tactile learner, such as me, ceramics and pottery are awesome. It’s all about touching stuff and molding stuff. That is super fun and very exciting. I never tire of working with clay, even though it isn’t my go-to art form,

parasite: an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other’s expense. Two days ago, on a cold winter’s day, my friend Lee and I went to see the movie “Parasite.” Well, Lee had called me that morning and asked me if I

chapel at Stella NiagaraNature Preserve Today’s blogging challenge is to write about glass windows. I love windows made of glass. They are beautiful. They are see through and they are reflective at the same time. Glass windows were invented in the fourteenth century, but they weren’t used in homes until the sixteenth century. St. Luke’s

I have been getting my hair care and pampering session at WaveLengths for some time. My hairdresser, Jacquie, succeeds in transforming me every time. I come in with a head looking like an unpruned shrub, and I come out, looking great! Jacquie is not only my hairdresser, she is also my friend and confidant. I

Today’s blogging challenge is to write about plastic shopping bag. Well, it’s supposed to be a gratitude, but, honestly, I can’t find very much about plastic shopping bags that I like. Plastic shopping bags were invented in the early 1960s by a Swedish engineer named Sten Gustaf Thulin. Those bags are made from a material

Note: Today’s blogging prompt is “acceptance,” and it came from Lorna MacDonald Czarnota. This morning, at church, the choir sang “Holy Ground,” in four-part harmony. It felt so good to sing that. Harmony is everything. It gives shape and color to the song and makes it feel whole. You can sing anywhere, even in sad

Today’s blogging prompt comes from my friend Lorna MacDonald Czarnota, who writes a gratitude post every day on Facebook. Today, she posted one word, “family.” I asked Lorna if I could use some of her gratitude posts as blogging prompts, and she very graciously said yes. I think about family often and about what the

Today is the last day of the January version of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. The challenge was to write 31 blog posts for the month of January, and this is blog post number 31. This is the first time, since I started participating in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge, that I have actually completed the challenge.

When I originally got my freelance journalism gig with the Island Dispatch in 2007, I was told that, not only was I to write articles, I was also to take my own photographs. Oh, I wasn’t sure about that. When I went to the journalism school at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, I