I took this “What Spice are You?” quiz at blogthings.com. I couldn’t get the code with picture to show up properly in my blog, but my result was this:
You Are Basil
You are quite popular and loved by most people. You have a mild temperament, but your style is definitely distinctive. You are [...]
Archive for March, 2008
31 Mar
Quiz: What Spice are You?
31 Mar
Conversation with a Man on the Street
The other day on my walk, I came across a gentleman who was out watering some plants in his (very beautiful) yard.
“Your yard looks really nice,” I said.
“Thanks,” he replied. “It’s a lot of work.”
“I can imagine,” I said.
And then he said something that really struck me: “I wish I didn’t have it.” [...]
28 Mar
Shampoo: A Reminiscence
I hate buying shampoo.
I mean, it’s nice to have clean hair and all, and I am grateful for the existence of shampoo. But if you ever actually take a moment to look at the huge number of varieties of shampoo available at your local retailer, you might see what I mean when I say [...]
27 Mar
Little Surprises
Hope everyone had a lovely Easter. Me and mine had a wonderful weekend. On Saturday, the boys did an Easter egg hunt here at the house. Brian set the whole thing up. Inside each egg was a slip of paper with a number on it, and each number coincided with an [...]
23 Mar
Happy Easter!
A Happy and Blessed Easter, my friends.
Rejoice! He is Risen!
(Photo courtesy of Microsoft Clip Art Gallery.)
21 Mar
God’s Friday (Good Friday)
Why is it we are always hungriest on days when we are supposed to be fasting?
Last night I went to the Maundy Thursday Mass at my parish. I’d gone last year, but apart from the part where the priests wash the feet of some of the parishioners, I hardly remembered a thing about it. [...]
20 Mar
The Happiness of Spring!
Spring is officially here!
Yesterday morning, as Urban and I were leaving the house to head to the bus stop, the wind was blowing and leaves were whirling and swirling down the street, and there was the most heavenly perfume in the air. I don’t know if it was the first Confederate jasmine of the [...]
19 Mar
“God’s in His Heaven; All is Right with the World”
Note: If you were directed to this page by a search engine when looking for the source of the “God’s in his heaven” quote, please see Pantoufle’s comment (#5) below. There, you will find the answer!
So yesterday I was whiny and grumpy and feeling sorry for myself because my Lutheran husband said [...]
18 Mar
Heartbreak
This past Sunday, I asked my husband if he would come with me to the Easter Vigil on Saturday evening at church.
I didn’t do this flippantly. I’d prayed about it—and had a friend praying about it—a lot. When I finally got my courage up enough to ask him and the time felt right, [...]
16 Mar
Palm Sunday Reflections
Today was Palm Sunday and the Sunday of Christ’s Passion. Passion, meaning, suffering (for love, I think). This is the day in the Church year when we read about Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey and being greeting with waving palm branches and shouts of “Hosanna!” A few paragraphs later, we [...]
