My dog is sick. He caught a tic-related illness called la piroplasmose in French, and it attacks the red and white blood cells, the liver, and the kidneys. It’s pretty serious, but we brought him in as soon as he started showing symptoms. He had been vaccinated against it, and I put the tic repellant faithfully every month. And yet… Read More
Archives for January 2014
Sunsets+Shopping=Serenity. Sorta.
I did manage to clean my floors yesterday after all. After talking with my tribe, they encouraged me to just pick one thing to do (to get out of my mental funk) and I realised having muddy floors bothered me more than anything else. So I mopped them. And I felt so much better. And then, since my long-suffering dog… Read More
Epiphany
I just need to plunge right in, don’t I? It’s Thursday’s post on France and I promised to write about the Epiphany celebration where all of France (Europe? The Eastern Christian Churches?) eats the galette des rois. With alcoholic bubbling cider. But I’m having trouble plunging right in because I’m distracted. I’m forlorn because my husband is in Minnesota (he… Read More
Galette des Rois à la Frangipane (gluten-free)
A galette des rois (pronounced gah-let day rwa) is a flaky cake with filling that you eat on the 12th night after Christmas. The Epiphany. It honors the magi kings (rois) who came to pay homage to Jesus. And this celebration is a big deal in France. I’ll tell you more about the tradition on Thursday for my French post…. Read More
Discipleship
As Christians we can sometimes swing too far into works, or too far into grace, depending on what our religious persuasion is. Some churches permit – and even encourage – carrying around a load of guilt as a perverse way of showing our gratitude for being given the gift of holiness and eternal life. Conversely, other churches are so focused… Read More
The Vulnerability of Being Loved
I wrote this post yesterday. And although I do feel better today (apart from the fact that my husband has a last minute trip to the antarctic (Minnesota) on top of his scheduled trip to Hollywood and I so don’t want him to leave), I thought it was worth it to share how I’ve been feeling because a lot of… Read More