Reflections and resolutions

This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog. This is my third New Year’s since the onset of Crohn’s Disease. Thinking about New Year’s resolutions can be depressing with a chronic illness. How can I resolve to do anything ahead of time when I don’t know I’ll be feeling? I read something very freeing some years ago. It’s become even [more]

 
What Christmas means to me

This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog. Here’s something I wrote last December for one of the local newspapers. My ex-church was inviting community members to provide input on what Christmas meant to them and the local newspaper joined in. The photo is from a number of years ago – my children are now in high school. “What does [more]

 
Christian Power Plays

This is a copy of my fifth post on the Communitas Collective blog. It seems to me that ‘Christian Power Play’ should be an oxymoron.However, the words and actions of some Christians imply otherwise. After reading the local newspaper this week I wrote the following response to a column by a Christian. In her December 2 column Virginia Seuffert argues that public schools should display [more]

 
Black or white scenarios

This is a copy of my most recent post on the Communitas Collective blog. I’ve been doing some programming recently which has reminded me how black or white computer code is. When it’s correctly written it always works. If it’s just one character off it will (maddeningly) entirely fail to run. And yes, I’ve been reminded of the latter this week! When I became a [more]

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