I remember this view, looking up and back at the ghosts of congregants from the early 1900s, and my own ghosts from the last years of that century. Convergence and a little synchronicity.
Read the full story »Lizzie and Jane are on the cusp of GenX. We continually search for our spot (past and present) in the great game of generational generalization.
Spirituality as continually redesigned by Lizzie and Jane
Lizzie and Jane’s brewing stew of back and forth trouble that hasn’t yet been loosed upon the world…
Because there’s nothing you can’t put on a list
Everything else Lizzie and Jane are thinking about…
Lizzie When Jane and I went to high school in New Jersey in the early 80’s, there were no state-imposed SOL’s (standards of learning) or tense parents’ Q & A nights for the Sex Ed …
I am already transcribing my 2009 New Year’s resolutions onto my 2010 list, thereby fulfilling my 2008 resolutions to plan ahead (and not procrastinate) when possible. Below is a list of previous years’ resolutions. Have …
Jane and I have agreed to compare notes on our New Year’s resolutions. One of my favorite things about my friend Jane is her love-hate (mostly love) relationship with Facebook. And her 2009 resolution …
My hometown of "Pleasantville," New Jersey, enjoyed the glorious status of being a regular stop on the Erie Lackawanna train line into Hoboken. The neat brick train station, with its urine-smelling underground walkway, formed the …
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So this morning Lizzie asked me what I think about Obama’s choice of Rick Warren as the pastor to give the invocation at his inauguration.
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about the Rick Warren thing…coming up for inauguration. You heard about …
Well, as my fellow Scrooge Lizzie has duly noted, that “most wonderful time of the year…” is upon us.
Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa… Malls, online shopping, a thousand catalogs in the mail and special offers pouring into …
I am staring through a stepladder at 1,800 points of light—a profusion of clear mini-lights strung perfectly around our 12-foot Douglas fir. My kitchen counter is lined with Costco-sized bottles of vanilla extract and molasses, …
Jane November 26 at 6:35am I am thankful for my friend Lizzie. For the talking, listening, and WRITING. For the humor, and completely …
PANDORATION: n. the habitual, feminine act of opening up boxes full of trouble. Implies the adoration of all that goes along with trouble-making mischievous box-opening. The contrary and perverse lack of desire (as opposed to inability) to leave the damned lid tightly screwed on the above-mentioned Box…
So here is Lizzie’s and my conversation from the night of, and morning after, this past monumental presidential election. I stayed on Facebook, Huffington Post, MSNBC.com, and CNN.com until the wee hours. Had CNN on …
What I learned from Holden Caulfield, whom I got to know in Mrs. Levinson’s 11th-grade English class (where Jane sat a few seats behind me, by the way)…. As a reader: An honest-to-goodness …
I had to reread the text message several times before I realized that the 10K request from my college daughter was NOT a plea for lavish senior-year funding.
OMG, she wants me to RUN a 10K. She actually thinks I’ve got 10 kilometers of “just do it” in me. Which soon gave way to… Awwwwwww. What a nice compliment from my super-fit 21-year-old daughter.
I myself keep clinging to the Staples commercial of the mom giddy with glee, throwing back to school items into her cart, sullen children lagging behind. Cue the classic Christmas tune, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year…”
image: Eric Zener "Air" oil/canvas Gallery Henoch Jane: So last week found me lagging in my reading of Committed. Lots to do around the house, with the kids, I wasn’t making the time …
Jane: So Lizzie, how has the past week been for you? We’ve both been busy and spoken/texted a bit less than usual. I’ve been feeding my internet/news fix with all sorts of interesting observations and …
UPDATE: And here it is! Follow the presentation of the new iPad and check out all the cool things it does! GDGT LIVE APPLE COVERAGE …
