Berkeley Farm Girl

Part of my goals for 2008 include things like blogging more often, so I hope to have more regular updating.

It was a beautiful and moving service: footwashing, procession to the Chapel of Repose, stripping of the altar. I was exceedingly cranky whe...

Today we had the pre-Easter brass polishing session at the church. Normally during Lent most of the stuff would go back into the sacristry ...

We are having a baby boomlet at St. Spike's. This takes a bit of getting used to, because for better and for worse, we haven't been...

It's been rough around here lately. I've been in and out of the Pit, had health weirdness (I had resolved at New Year's to blog...

Yesterday I was having an afternoon that wasn't going right. I went to the church to set up, and found the chapel chairs in disarray, s...

Yesterday I schlepped up to Grace Cathedral for the Investiture of the Eighth Bishop of California. I had been considering not-going but was...

I was traveling yesterday, and got home at about 10 pm, so am probably the last plugged-in Episcopalian to hear of the election of Katharine...

Blessings and congratulations to those who were ordained today, the day between the Feast of the Giving of the Book (Shavuot) and the Feast ...

Two of the people I met at the dim sum brunch for my friend Elissa go to the fab Sara's church, "St. Ned's". So of cour...