Category Archives: Reverend Mother

A Response to Rose

by the Reverend Mother
This is an answer to the comment left by Rose on my blogpost: Convention News, dated 2/27/10.
Dearest Rose,
Thank you for your comments. I appreciate that you took the time to respond. You seem to be coming from a presupposition that I can’t quite put my finger on, but it appears to be [...]

Convention News

By the Reverend Mother
Today I had the honor of performing a pastoral function by offering the invocation at the 39A convention in West St. Paul. I enjoy invoking things. Here’s what I said:
I read an article yesterday written by someone who believed that it was time to work to see that prayers would not be [...]

Holy Night…at the Chicken Coop

by Night Writer
THe resident landscape artist on the blogroll, Sharell at Zumbro Falls Impressionist (see “Night Lights” list at right), shares a Christmas oil painting in a post that also references the Reverend Mother. Holy Night at the Chicken Coop demonstrates Sharell’s wonderful talent for working with light and warmth. The warmth — even on [...]

Mrs. Worley, et al. Goes to Washington

By Reverend Mother
Last night at approximately 10:30 Mall Diva, Tiger Lilly, Princess Flickerfeather and a good friend of the family, whom we will call Mrs. Lotti, left So. St. Paul headed for Washington. Monday evening Faith heard a radio interview in which Michele Bachmann urged citizens to gather a group and be at the National Mall Thursday [...]

My Ninja-Tough Daughter

by the Reverend Mother
The following is an actual conversation. It was not changed to protect anyone.
RM: Some of the young mothers from church want to know if you’d like to earn some money babysitting. They’re going to start getting together to educate their older kids and need someone to watch the tiny ones a couple [...]

Hello from Cathorla (Cazorla)

Z is the th sound here, so when you say the name of the town it sounds like you´re lisping.
We arrived without incident yesterday and we have been very busy ever since. We are talking to Spaniards all day long to help them improve their English. Now is the end of our first full [...]

A Good Walk

by the Reverend Mother
Almost every morning I walk for exercise. It’s enjoyable to walk when it’s still early. The air smells wonderful, there’s not a great deal of traffic (when is there a lot of traffic in SSP?), and it makes a peaceful start to my day. Some days I see interesting things. My route [...]

Closed-Circuit to Kingdavid…

Good morning.
I want you to know that I finished today’s NYT crossword puzzle in about 50 minutes; although I didn’t use a pen. But my pencil was mechanical!
That is all.
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55 random things

I was tagged by Gabrielle at I’m Free Now. The “55 Things Meme”:
55 Things
1. The phone rings; whom do you want it to be?
Ummmmmm, Publisher’s Clearinghouse.
2. When shopping at the grocery store, do you return your cart?
Always.
3. If you had to kiss the last person you kissed, would you?
I think so.
4. Do you take [...]

Behind Police Lines at the RNC

Last Saturday we shut down our super secret chaplain headquarters in downtown St. Paul. I’ve been asked not to name the location, but I can tell what we did. Police chaplains from around the state got together and set up a haven for any and all law enforcement personnel. We provided hot food, a place [...]

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