Texas Time Warp by Katie Sherrod (tags: Episcopal FtWorth)
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It’s that show again, and David’s doing his best to hunker down and ignore the hollering from my end of the couch. Rileycat has run into the other room, looking for invisible Martian cats (owing to the “meowing” sound effects .wav David found the other night) so it’s time to watch the season premiere of Amazing Race, featuring a bunch of “All Stars” from seasons past. Kevin and Drew! Rob and Ambuh. BoOOOOOOO!!!111!!! Uchenna and Joyce. Meh. They won before, and I’m not into them. Dustin and Kandice MEH!!! They don’t deserve this. NOT All-Star material. Joe and Bill. Gentlemen,…
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daily episcopalian: Dear Archbishop, Please stay home The post at DE is an email now making the rounds, from the Bishop of Maryland to the Archbishop of West Africa, disinviting him from a planned visit over Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Far from being the happy and uplifting news of someone standing up and courageously confronting a bully, it is a sad and heartbreaking "final notice" of the end of a personal and spiritual friendship that obviously goes back many years. It was sent because ++Akrofi was one of the seven primates who refused to attend Eucharist with all the…
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Bought some new headphones today for use with my iPod Mini; this is now the third set of ‘phones I’ve used, and I hope it’s the last pair I have to buy in a long time. The pair that came with the Mini are the standard iPod “speakerbud” type. I was never crazy about the sound quality, didn’t like how they kind of balanced uneasily in my ears and more often than not fell out, and they broke after only a couple of months’ use. One day, I noticed that one of the wires had kinked, and then it frayed.…