Category Archives: Family

Tali plays peek-a-boo underneath The Rev. Mommy’s surplice on Sunday morning. Photo credit goes to my brother-in-law’s girlfriend, Aunt Bethany.  Thank you!

You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up! Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever figure that out there goes our way of life! It’s not about food, it’s about keeping those ants in line. – Hopper, from A Bug’s Life OneContinue reading “Hand-to-Ant Combat”

We live ten minutes from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, where hundreds of aircraft, models, test vehicles and other air and space artifacts are on display in two huge hangars. I don’t know diddly about such things, but I find airplanes, space craft and related paraphernalia to be simply fascinating. Continue reading “Future Astronaut”

We aren’t in Pennsylvania any more. Geckos roam on and around our new townhouse with impunity.  Perhaps these creatures roam Penn’s Woods, too, but I never encountered them during my 32 years of living in the great Commonwealth of PA.  But now that we’ve relocated to the slightly warmer climes of the great Commonwealth ofContinue reading “Geckos”

We’re moved in.  Nearly all of the moving boxes are unpacked, and I can find most of our stuff (though it took me a [expletive deleted] hour to find my iron last evening – I didn’t want to show up for worship at my internship congregation in a wrinkled clergy shirt).  The girls have doneContinue reading “Life Update”