I came across this story in the New York Times today, about Katie Reider, a young, up-and-coming singer struck down by a terrible and apparently rare form of cancer. She left behind a partner, two kids, a best friend and a brother. She was a young woman of faith, a Christian, who, according to the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Balm or Placebo?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kindest Words
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I woke up this morning to open my email and find a message from Steve Riley, the best publicist in the world, that the writer of the blog Penny Carnival had mentioned my book. That’s nice, I thought, and I clicked on the link. Nice does not cover it. I hope you will read this [...]
Seattle Wrap-Up
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged prayer beads on July 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I are back from our trip and preparing to go to work tomorrow. Yuck. But before I get back to writing about the growth of American Judaism and what’s new on the animal spirituality front, I have a few last prayer bead-related things to say about Seattle. The first day I was [...]
Praying in Seattle – The Japanese Garden
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Buddhism, Buddhist mala on July 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In my last entry, I wrote about the almost mystical prayer experience I had in Seattle’s gorgeous St. James Cathedral. I left there at about noon and continued my quest for good places to pray with beads in this quirky, lovely city. For some reason, I got it into my head that after praying indoors [...]
Praying in Seattle
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer, St. James Cathedral on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My husband and I are visiting Seattle this week – he for a conference and me for the free hotel room. So while he confers, I bop around the city looking for bead stores, places to pray with beads and great yarn stores. Oh, then there’s the eating. There are way too many good bakeries [...]
45 Pines
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer beads on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Steve Riley, publicist extraordinaire at Morehouse, sent me a link this morning to a blog called 45 Pines with an entry called “Praying with Stones.” It seems that the writer, named Tanya, found a copy of Bead One, Pray Too at her local library (YEA! LIBRARIES!) and came home and was inspired to make an [...]
You know you want to listen to me blah, blah, blah for an hour!
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, Uncategorized, tagged craftsanity.com, podcast, prayer beads on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I cannot imagine why anyone would want to hear me talk for an hour, but Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood sure did. This firecracker interviewed me about a month ago, I think, on the subject of Bead One, Pray Too and crafting with a spiritual bent. We had a ball – talked for two-and-a-half hours, she from her [...]
Prayer for the Bridal Prayer Beads
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anglican prayer beads, Anglican rosary, Episcopal prayer beads, Episcopal rosary on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my last post, I showed you how I made a set of prayer beads suitable for brides. Now we move on to the prayers. As I said in the previous post, I used the Anglican rosary form to create these bridal prayer beads, but I was inspired to add three beads on the stem, [...]
