My husband and I are making our first turkey EVER this week! We have always done the circuit of parent’s and grandparent’s houses, and while we are still doing most of those, his mom’s side is coming over to our place. And I am WAY excited. I started making a few things already… well, for…
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Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More By ANDREW MARTINPublished: November 15, 2008The canned meat product has become the emblematic food for hard times as consumers look for ways to stretch their grocery budgets. Anybody have a spam story, or a favorite spam recipe?
consumption, part 2
I found this article in my NYTimes email this morning… Op-Ed ContributorLet’s Have Another Cup of CoffeeBy MICHAEL KINSLEYPublished: November 14, 2008American consumers, who have been steadily losing interest in buying things, would ideally now go on one last spending spree — and then start saving like mad. As I’m thinking about Christmas, I too…
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Remembrance 1. Did your church have any special celebrations for All Saints/All Soul’s Day? We remembered the names of those had passed with a moment of silence for each and the lighting of candles. Our whole worship service however was geared towards a remembrance of the saints and talking about what it takes to become…
vindication and guilt
A former colleague of mine just got dissed in the UM Reporter. I’m not giving out any details beyond that. But I felt strangely vindicated. You see, while I appreciated this person’s ministry, there were parts of it that were very troublesome to me. It seemed like they were stretching the boundaries a little farther…
those silly lutherans…
In my small town, there are basically five churches: Presbyterian, Nazarene, Catholic, LCMS, and my United Methodist church. Outside of town there is a UCC church and an ELCA church that participate with us. We have a fairly good relationship among all of the churches and together have a ministerial alliance that distributes funds for…
consumption…
I was listening to our local NPR station a day or two after the election and what they talked about more than anything else on Talk at 12 was the idea of consumption and consumerism. One of the commentators said that at first she was troubled by the fact that a retail giant like Circuit…
time to get back in the swing of things.
i’ve been a bit absent from the blogging recently. but like everything in life, there are ups and downs and highs and lows and maybe i’m on the upswing. I am very excited and inspired by how this latest political election has turned out. Not just that my favored candidate won. (although, I do break…