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Surfacing with an Announcement

By On May 22, 2013 · 2 Comments

I guess I wasn’t back after all.

It’s been a month since I last posted… a month during which some part of my subconscious was holding its breath, waiting and wondering what would become of much of my past year’s work.

On May 11, 2012, along with twelve [...]

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Back with Sanity (Relatively) Intact

By On April 22, 2013 · 1 Comment

I’m not knee-deep in discernment and assessment, seeking nominees to become the ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan! Nor am I working on documents to introduce them to the diocese!

(Want to see who our candidates are? Click here.)

It’s not Spring Break with children at home! Nor is [...]

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Striking a Blow for Sanity

By On January 22, 2013 · 7 Comments

When I last posted, I made a dangerous statement: “If all goes well, we start on Monday.”

Since then, two Mondays have passed. As you may have noticed, nary a word has been published here. There are two reasons: tendencies toward perfectionism and higher priorities.

My tendencies toward perfectionism make [...]

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Inhabiting the Borderlands

By On January 11, 2013 · 3 Comments

Just about a week ago, I took a quick peek at my blog stats and thought, “How could that be possible?” I was reacting to the swift and widespread (for me) sharing of the post You Choose Your Child’s Religion, which brought many more new readers to this [...]

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Poll Update: Almost Neck and Neck

By On January 9, 2013 · 9 Comments

It’s clear to me that I am blessed by the readers of this blog. There’s even a civil conversation about the meaning of religious practice happening in the comments!

The last post asked for your thoughts. The civil conversation about religious practice accidentally started in the [...]

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You Choose Where We Go From Here

By On January 7, 2013 · 26 Comments

Last Thursday, this blog had four pageviews. Four. You could count them on one hand, and still have one finger left over.

Friday morning, I read KJ Dell’Antonia’s essay, Children, Choosing Their Religion. In response, I wrote You Choose Your Child’s Religion.

By the end of the day Friday, this blog [...]

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A Blogaversary, An Announcement

By On November 28, 2012 · 6 Comments

I started blogging just about a year ago. I had no idea what I was doing. I was so shy about the fact that I had started a blog that I told no one, not even my husband.

I used the URL www.plainsongfarm.com because I already owned it. I bought it in 2001, soon after [...]

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Stating the Obvious: This Blog is on Hiatus

By On August 17, 2012 · 1 Comment

I love blogging. I plan to get back to it after my kids are back in school… which is only a few weeks away.  I won’t be posting frequently then, but I do plan to post regularly.

This summer, however, it’s been a different story.  Posts have been few and far between. Most of my [...]

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Down Time

By On June 22, 2012 · 3 Comments

When I pushed “publish” on my last post on May 16th, I never anticipated that it would be more than a month before another post was up. But my house was visited by a viral illness that took down my daughter first, my son next, and finally me. (My husband escaped unscathed.) Add that to [...]

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More Pruning Thoughts: An Update and some Links

By On May 16, 2012 · 6 Comments

My most recent post outlined some statistical trends in the Episcopal Church.  It was a pleasure to hear from quite a few people in the comments as well as by private email. Although it was published only a couple of days ago, it has garnered almost 300 page [...]

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