The Chaliceblog

(If you're a non-Unitarian friend of mine reading this because you like me, cool. Thanks!  But this might get boring quick.  The backsto...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsSD9-AGJTA Lots of opinions within.  If you disagree, um, put it on the internet.  That’s pretty much wha...

There are two stages to my terror when faced with a large personal/professional obligation: 1. Research 2. Primping The first one of th...

I gave a concise (for me) version of an old-school (because 2006 is old-school) Chaliceblog rant over the weekend about political issues fro...

I'm still very much a humanist, but I'm a pretty open minded one who believes in metaphor, so part of my spiritual journey is listen...

I've had a couple of discussions about the ableism, and ableist language, issue where I've been varying degrees of welcome due to my...

In general, I intend this to be for journaling about that which is greater than myself.  That said, my thoughts have been pretty much in thi...

RANDAL : (suddenly outraged) Fuck you. Fuck you, pal. Listen to you trying to pass the buck again. I'm the source of all your m...

I've had a lot of things on my mind recently, not the least of which is the upshot I got from reading Harry Markopolos' No One Would...

The assignment was "draw a container and what goes in the container." We were later told that the container is practice and the co...

I read the Goldfinch a couple of years ago. Its major theme is that preservation of beauty is, if not as important as creation of beauty, a...

I spent last weekend at a convention so I was completely out of nature's path.  Ian can't stand going to a con and never leaving the...

So, I started rereading The Gift of Fear.  I'm only a couple of chapters back into it and I'd forgotten most of it.   I think for a...

I see things like this and I'm all "thank goodness I don't blog anymore." and then I'm like "Shit, I started b...

In the comments on my last post, my friend Lisa asked me "I'm curious to know why you see yourself as a maker of bad decisions. A d...

I identify with this dinosaur.  “intuition is always right in at least two important ways; It is always in response to something. it al...