Broomstick Chronicles

I'm taking a course at Cherry Hill Seminary called "A Saunter with John Muir and Walt Whitman--The Poetry and Politics of Nature....

Yesterday I set out to attend the re-dedication of the peace pole on the campus of Dominican University. Our local Dominican Sisters, colle...

I was rooting around in some of my old writings and discovered this. Originally drafted in 2004 when I was functioning as the chair of the ...

Today I attended an MIC clergy luncheon at which the speaker, Don Carney, addressed the problems of Marin County teens, rich and poor. (Co...

Since I arrived on the muggy heat of the night, after 1 am, I figured I'd tiptoe in our room and quietly unpack and go to bed, but to my...

Earlier this month, Corby and I attended the 30th Annual Big Time, a midsummer festival of the Coast Miwok and Pomo people of California. T...

I've had a busy, eventful Summer, so where to start? Starting with the most recent, last Sunday afternoon, at the invitation of my frie...

As a member of the AAR , I am on the mailing list of lots of academic and religious publishing houses so I get their catalogs. I enjoy peru...

Last Monday I attended Marin Interfaith Council 's only retreat of this year, at Green Gulch Farm , shown in this photo and scene of oth...

Just last month I mentioned reading the "Irish Sporting Green," which is what this blog seems to be becoming. On Beltane, after ha...

Today my local interfaith group celebrated National Day of Prayer in a more ideal form than many have come to expect. By more ideal, I mean...

Lately this blog looks like the Irish Sporting Green. One of the bigger local newspapers, the San Francisco Chronicle , publishes its sport...

I don't feel like blogging. I don't feel like doing anything. I've been done in for too long. Christy's family held her...

My dear friend Christy Kearney (aka Chrys Rasmussen and Christy Werbel) passed away last Saturday after a long battle with breast cancer. ...