OK, here's the deal. What I typed was in the shape of an X. The upper left arm said, reading downward, STOP The upper right arm said, re...

{ OK, I'm going to try to recreate my earlier blog that I destroyed somehow. You'd think I'd know how to do this, given I've...

OK, I spent about an hour writing a post about Advent. It was, I must say, well worth reading. But something went wrong and it didn't po...

Today is the first day of the Christian year--the first Sunday of Advent. I went to St. Peter's today--my parish church. A very good ser...

Every Thanksgiving Bern gives people who come to dinner little presents. This year she got most of it at the Consignment Shop, I think. Mine...

The three granddaughters are here along with Cathy, their mom. Josh is coming in on the 10:30 p.m. train from baltimore. Tomorrow Mimi and T...