Rev Mibi

Friday 5: Seasons Change I'm recovering from my morning painting the commuter lounge in seminary by doing the Friday Five. The question...

In a vain attempt to get organized before school starts next week, I performed massive paper-pile dissection and shredding today. I haven...

...for everything and nothing, for all the little things and a few really big things. We middlers did an orientation session for the incomin...

A great heart sometimes suffers great pain. You asked me why you feel so deeply. I don't know. All I know is that you have a great heart...

I finally got around to cleaning off my desk this afternoon. It was covered with detritus (receipts, thing needing filing, catalogs, assorte...

So we were having dinner with friends. Among the guests were a female pastor and an American missionary from Congo, where PH grew up. He, of...

Moi and StrongOpinions at her place. At 12,000 feet. Note I'm looking at the camera, not the view. That's a little too high up for m...

We're back home. The last leg of our flight was delayed, so we ended up not getting home until 1 am or something. It was good to be home...

CPE is over - we graduated today. I had a final go-round with the prickly person in our group in our last IPR, and, mirabile dictu, the supe...

We survived final evaluations. The prickly person was predictably prickly and somewhat condescending to me. Everyone else was supportive, co...

...and my 15 year old AIDS patient has taken a turn for the worse and is categorized as end-stage. I feel like I'm abandoning her, endin...

My dear friend M died early this morning. She had pancreatic cancer; it had only been diagnosed a few months ago. She was 57. She taught me ...

I did my final verbatim today. Not bad, not good, just glad it got done. Baking a chocolate cake for the IPR tomorrow - maybe it will sweete...

...for Litigator, who had an emergency appendectomy this morning. I was ever so tempted to hop on a plane to go to City of Angels and be wit...

My birthday present from PH was an IPod. I am happily downloading some of my favorite podcasts and CDs. Hopefully, I won't break it with...

Tomorrow is my birthday. I will have to adjust to the idea of telling people I'm 55. In honor of the day, I went to the nail salon and g...

Six more days of CPE. The last two days are final evaluation and graduation and stuff like that, so there are really only four more days of ...

Heat index of 105 degrees today. I stood on the Metro platform this evening waiting for the train to come for 15 minutes, instead of the usu...

I did the funeral in the funeral home today. The deceased was a 10 week old girl whom I had known on the CICU. It went reasonably smoothly; ...

On Sundays I get up early to take my anti-osteoporosis medicine. Yet another joy of middle age, dang it. Between that (which has to be take...