After 9 years here and almost 5000 posts, I was itchy for a change of platform. After messing around with this and that, I have moved ov...

I was planning to switch over to a new blogging platform with the new year, but discovered that none of them were much to my liking. Still d...

A conservative Catholic blog I read has been responding to the recent Vatican document --even though it came from way down the food chain-- ...

I began this blog at the end of 2006; Blogger only began keeping stats in 2010. My hits peaked in October 2014, with over 134,000 i...

The new header pic is a copy of the one from a new ExCathedra blog on another blogging service. I have been toying with the idea, after nine...

on the feast today of St Stephen the Protomartyr, just to let my readers know how much I have to suffer through in my knee rehab process at ...

Due to my 17-year sojourn in The Great (formerly) White North, today is not only the feast of St Stephen the First Martyr, on whose feast G...

At Christmastime I sometimes lay aside my Genghis Khan attitude toward the world and get sentimental and past-oriented, remembering all the ...

My dear friend L is a Unitarian Universalist minister. We have known each other for 30 years or so. She has remained mostly the liberal that...