Rev Mibi

Friday, December 30, 2005

RevGal friday Five: New Years' Edition

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1) Do you make New Year's Resolutions? You mean besides my annual resolution to lose twenty pounds? Nahhh. Why break the pattern? 2) If ...
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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Quiet

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I dropped the boys off at the airport. Litigator will return to Rhode Island, and Stonemason back to the North Country. It's such an adj...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Opening Presents...

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You can see Litigator's black eye in all its glory, StoneMason enjoying the fun, and StrongOpinions in the foreground opening a present....

RevGal Christmas Meme

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1. What is the best gift you received this year? (Tangible gifts only, please!) It's a toss-up between the photo collage StrongOpinions ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Anticipation

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While ReverendMother is in labor waiting for teh arrival of the revbaby, I'm here waiting for the arrival of my two big sons, whom I mis...
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Prayer Requests

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Prayers, please, for two of my favorite women: my dear mother-in-law, who has had a bad case of the flu since we left Chicago, and ReverendM...
Monday, December 26, 2005

Merry Day After Christmas

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I'm back from Chicago, and the family feasts with PH's clan. A calorific time was had by all. StrongOpinions picked us up at the air...
Friday, December 23, 2005

Christmas Is Coming...

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The goose is getting fat (or maybe it's just me). We're leaving this afternoon for Chicago for a few days of Swedish Christmas with ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Sometimes Making Cookies is Stressful, too, GrandMary!

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

It's Better Than Bad, It's Good

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I decided to work from home for the afternoon; I had gotten two big pieces of bureaucratese written and shipped off, so I felt no guilt. The...

Druid-Cats

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Our lady human is annoyed with us. She doesn't understand that, when faced with an enormous tree sitting right in the corner of the livi...
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Monday, December 19, 2005

Slightly Stressful Sunday

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I knew it was going to be a little stressful: I was already conducting the choir in our Advent Lessons and Carols service. Four anthems in a...
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Sunday, December 18, 2005

Sunday Morning

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and the skies are still pretty dark, so my light-sensor window candles are still lit. There's something about candles in a window (even ...
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Friday, December 16, 2005

RevGal Friday Five

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1) Have you ever gotten a really good kiss under the mistletoe? Tell the truth. Spare no details. Was the mistletoe real, because kisses und...
Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Five Facts

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I'm a little slow to the party here, but since Leslee tagged ALL of us, herewith are five facts about me: 1) I was adopted at the age of...
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What Christmas Carol are you? - thanks revamy

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You are 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing'. You take Christmas very seriously. For you, it is a religious festival, celebrating the bi...
Sunday, December 11, 2005

You Take a Paperclip and...

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I flew to Chicago Friday to meet up with Strong Opinions, who was heading home from Cheeseheadland and Useless Boyfriend, so we could share ...
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Thursday, December 08, 2005

Seven-Year-Old Wisdom from my Niece

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Linnea was in the back of the car and burst into song, with lyrics about the “music of the night”. Isn’t that from Phantom of the Opera? A...

Looking Ahead

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Today will be a lo-o-o-o-ng day. I have to finish up a casserole for PH to bring to his staff meeting (chicken tagine with preserved lemons ...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Reflections on the Gulf

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I've had over a week to start to digest my experience in Qatar. It's been an interesting process. Frankly, I never would have gone t...
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mibi52/ The Rev. Dr. Mary Brennan Thorpe
Richmond, VA, United States
A second (actually fifth) career Episcopal priest, I am serving as Director of Transition Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. I help parishes find priests and priests find new calls.How did a RC convent girl with a Teamster shop-steward dad end up here? Married to Pastoral Husband, AKA PH, an ordained minister and full-time pastoral counselor. Three kids from the prior marriage: Strong Opinions, artistic 30 y.o. girl trying on the world for size, Stonemason, 32 y.o. guy working with his hands in the North Country, Litigator, highly verbal 34 y.o. with aspirations to be the next Michael Moore. Two stepsons, 4 step grandkids, a cat. Way too many books.Well, there are never too many books...
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