Category Archives: Family (mine, usually)

All right, all right

May 9, 2008 – 10:52 pm

Nothing like your friends complaining to make you post something, huh?
Happy Pascha, Christo Anesti! We’ve just celebrated our first Lent/Holy Week/Pascha in the Orthodox church. Too wonderful for words, and many other Orthodox bloggers have written about it better than I would. So, how about a general update?
The symphony has a concert tomorrow night. You […]

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Busy week

April 15, 2008 – 10:42 pm

My work dumped about 140 people from its corporate office in the last week, so the day job has been a little more exciting than normal.
Pascha is next week, so this week is (supposed to be) all about the preparation.
I’m playing the spring musical with one of the local high schools, so all the non-day-job […]

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Birthdays approaching

April 2, 2008 – 2:29 pm

Mine and Fluff’s, anyway. I’m thinking about taking her to the opera. The Met has a live broadcast that is carried by some movie theatres - and it’s La Boheme! How cool would this kind of a tradition be?

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The Book of Revelation in the Orthodox church

March 23, 2008 – 8:44 pm

This post isn’t in direct relationship to Great Lent, as is most of what I’ve posted lately. Instead, this is something that came up during a visit to family over the western Easter Sunday. Why doesn’t the Orthodox church teach anything about the Book of Revelation?
As with most questions of this type, its complicated. The […]

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“child advocates”

March 7, 2008 – 6:59 am

In the immortal words of Inigo Montoya, “you keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.”
A California court has ruled that the homeschooled children of Phillip and Mary Long must attend public schools - or, as the “court” put it,
that several children in one homeschool family must be […]

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