Music and Cats

On April 4, 1967, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a meeting of the Clergy and Laity Concerned at the Riverside Church in New York City. This was one of the first times that King had spoken out against the war in Vietnam. He was no longer speaking only to issues of race, but […]

My parents, who raised me in a very touchy-feely, liberal Presbyterian church, are now members of Covenant Church, a small Houston church that describes itself as an “ecumenical liberal Baptist congregation.” I would write “this is not your father’s Baptist church,” except that for me, it is. This is certainly not the sort of […]

Dan-ta are the chinese egg custard tarts that are one of my favorite dim-sum dishes. When the charming and sadly blogless ‘mouse made reference to his dan-ta recipe in a comment at PCAMB, there were enough ‘oohing’ and ‘aahing’ sounds that ‘mouse (who has guest-blogging privileges several places) posted said recipe here.
It took me a […]

One year ago today, my husband Paul had the biopsy that resulted in his second cancer diagnosis. Paul remembers nothing at all of the hospital; we assume that’s in part due to the general anesthesia used for the procedure. I, on the other hand, have vivid memories from the day.
We sat together in the […]

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Sometimes, when I have been petting Lyra for a while, she kisses me. I confess that I encourage this behavior - which I can only imagine she perceives as reciprocal grooming - by leaning toward her and making little kissing sounds. The place that she most often deems […]