• Episcopal - Hot Off The Presses

    Advance: 19 former Grace and St Stephen’s Vestry Members

    Pastor must answer important questions Question: What is thy duty toward thy neighbor? Answer: My duty toward my Neighbor is . . . to do to all men as I would they should do unto me: . . . To be true and just in all my dealings: . . . To keep my hands from picking and stealing, and my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering: . . . Not to desire other men’s goods; But to learn and labor truly to get my own living. — The Book of Common Prayer 1928. We are 19 former vestry…

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    Fanatical Apathy · Cancer n’ Me/Blogula Rasa – The Nasal Drip Post

    Fanatical Apathy · Cancer n’ Me Adam Felber (ace WWDTM panelist) had a less than positive experience with the totally disorganized and indifferent crap that is the American health care system the other day. He’s happy to say that he has not-cancer! Hurray! And he had pretty much diagnosed himself correctly via WebMD, but that didn’t stop him from thinking that The Cancer had invaded his lymph nodes, whatever those are. As it happens, I also had a less-than-satisfactory experience with my health care provider Tuesday, and I had also pretty much diagnosed myself via Google and various diagnosed myself…

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2007-04-11

    An Office Approach to the Diagnosis of Chronic Cough – December 1998 – American Academy of Family Physicians Got drugs for post-nasal drip, asthma, antihistamine-decongestant inhalants, yadda yadda (tags: health allergies PersistentCough AsthmaCoughVariant)

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    The Choral Obstacle Course: Survived!

    Unlike stalwart AKMA, who couldn't find his music after rehearsing several times, and had to "wing it" at his service, our trio (plus Paul the associate priest) performed the Exultet without too many noticeable bobbles. In rehearsal, I really struggled and I know Mary was thinking of pulling me out, but the last run through was clean and my voice (and throat) had opened up a bit. By the time we actually started, I was as ready as I was going to be and Katie and I stood together so that she could hold a candle for me. We had…

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    Rejoice And Sing Now

    As in previous years, I’ll be helping to sing the Exultet, an ancient Christian chant that is sung (in our Anglo-Catholic tradition anyway) just once a year: at the beginning of the Great Vigil of Easter, in the darkened church, on what’s called “Holy Saturday.” Unlike previous years, this is the first year at the combined St Nicholas with the Holy Innocents mission parish, and some things will be different. The new combined choir and our new-ish choir mistress have been working very hard for the last 6 weeks on all the special music, and what with the timing of…