On Thursday there will be exactly 9 hours, 15 minutes and 6 seconds of sunlight. The sun will rise tomorrow morning at 7:19am and set at 4:34pm. This means that many of us will walk into work before the sun rises and not leave until after it sets. Cue the winter blues. It’s a bit…

This morning I ate too much at One World. I didn’t need the second half of the bagel, but I ignored the signals my body was sending and continued on. And at dinner last night, I should have stopped sooner, but my long time membership in the “clean plate club” pushed me to keep eating….

In the course of the last couple of years, I’ve really started to enjoy the church calendar more. I get excited about the focus and the special attention paid to things during Advent & Lent. I feel like it honors, in a more intentional way, the centrality of Easter & Christmas. At our church, as…