Our overcast day turned stormy, so it’s a good thing I pulled dandelions yesterday. The neighbors might’ve thought I was just being an overanxious gardener, but in truth I was trying to harvest enough of the roots to get me through the week.
Inspired by a book called “Healing Teas,” I’ve been trying to have a […]

Well, here’s something you just don’t see every day: the “Soul Children of Chicago” singing “Lord, have mercy” 75 times in Ukrainian (or is it Slavonic? Reading the comments to this, people aren’t sure. We do this response at Vespers and Divine Liturgy, but I’m not sure which one it is either. And we pronounce […]

Earlier this week, temperatures fell into the single digits and everyone bundled into coats and blankets and hunkered down to keep warm. But today the temperatures have drifted nonchalantly above freezing, the somewhat fitful February sun is making an appearance, and I find it in my heart to believe that yes, the seasons might actually […]

We got a couple inches of snow in a short period of time yesterday. It wasn’t much fun to drive in last night, but this morning it’s really pretty. And school is out and everything around town is very quiet.
The sun has come out and Clementine seems to want nothing more than to get in […]

The damage doesn’t look all that bad, does it? Shows what we know. We just heard from CarStar, and even the rough estimate was coming in $2000 higher than the bluebook value.
So that’s the end of my Hyundai XG-350. That was the best car I ever owned, and definitely the most reliable.
We just paid it […]

It’s been a weird week here with Mr. & Mrs. This-side-of-glory.
For my part, my cold is mostly gone, but it looks like it’ll be a long time before my voice is completely normal. I was afraid of this. I injured my vocal cords about five years ago by singing incorrectly, and ever since then, I’ve […]

Ugh! I had just been boasting to Greg that I hadn’t had a cold in a long time when whammo. The Theophany troparion hadn’t left my mind before some nasty germs decided to take up residence in my poor old body. As things have progressed, my head has gotten stuffier and my voice has gotten […]

Our weather made a few headlines, and a friend of ours from California called up to say, “What in the world is an ice storm?”
Well, the shortest answer is that it’s something that everyone would be better off without.
It made our backyard look like this:

And the thing to notice is that the twig at the […]

While Greg was putting gas in the car on the way home from church, I fiddled with radio buttons. Country? Not right now. Oldies rock n’ roll? Well, sometimes, but the post-church mood didn’t quite lend itself to hearing about Mick Jagger’s inability to get satisfaction, so … no on oldies. And then I saw […]

All right, we’ve all got real serious things to think about, and the world’s going to you-know-where in a you-know-what. But I think it’s important for everyone to take a short break and check out the cockatoo that dances to the Backstreet Boys:

Many thanks to Word Mama for sending it along.