Mixed Moss

Pope Benedict is visiting Poland right now. This is significant because the last Pope was Polish– and the current one is German. His goal is to establish better relations between the German Catholic Church and the Polish people. There is still great bitterness and enmity in Poland for the German people.
As a sign of respect […]

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thine email when it comes to me
Delayed many days for lack of internet cafe,
Or swift on the wings of Dehradun’s constant access;
I love thine inimitable indecipherable scrawls
Posted on cards of board, strange of stamp
With foreign pictures upon the reverse visage;
I love thy British turn […]

Things I want to do this summer:
-Go to a concert at Riverbend (an outdoor theater where the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops perform their summer concert series).
-Go to a Reds game, preferably against the Chicago Cubs. My two favorite teams.
-Visit a graveyard by moonlight.
-Go camping.
-Go to Mammoth Cave (in KY).
-Host a party […]

Have you ever noticed how much smells affect your day? They make life so much richer. Here are a few of the smells I’ve experienced along the way this morning.
-My roommate’s shampoo. She uses something that smells lovely, whatever it is.
-Fresh ground coffee. At the fair trade coffee shop on the corner, as I wait […]

I’m about 50% serious with it, too.
So if you’re familiar with my blog, you’ll remember that I’m busy writing a book: The Summer of the Weddings.
Step 1) Write The Summer of the Weddings. It’s going to be the next big ChickLit bestseller, and will be prominantly displayed in Barnes & Nobles stores nationwide– but not, […]

My friend Rachel has spent the past few months in the Dominican Republic working with a doctor doing Aids work (she’s a pre-med student and wants to eventually get into public health). She is going back to the DR soon, but she was in town for a week or so for her Grandfather’s funeral, So I […]

Friday night I had dinner with my mom. She went out of town this week-end so I wasn’t able to be with her on Mother’s Day. 
Friday night and Saturay I went on a retreat with my church. Shane Claiborne, who is a friend of my pastor’s, came out from Philly to talk to us about what […]

A man with a secretary is like a little boy with a rubber band: he’ll stretch and stretch and stretch and stretch, just to see how much it can take. Then, when the secretary is so fed up that he or she is about to snap, he lets them go. And the secretary knows that he […]

Highlight of the afternoon: riding home with Jenny Cluggish and passing a dark red and black hearse with a rusted-out door and red and black faux fur on the dashboard!!! We shrieked with laughter for the next two blocks, the other drivers must’ve thought we were crazy.
Lowdark: A few too many tiny, perfect-looking red-heads running around.
Gift: […]