Sherry | November 30, 2007
Last night we had more fun than any 13 people oughta have. Nine adventurous and brave singers from the worshipEnsemble came to our house for chili and cornbread and to experiment with sacred harp singing. David and Carol Sherwood, friends from church, learned to appreciate the strong a cappella vocal sound of harp singing while [...]
Sherry | October 12, 2007
I had a lot of fun going through old pictures to help tell the story of Real Estate Guide, the topic I chose to reveal about myself in a community-building assignment for team retreat. It’s sometimes interesting to have two lives—all the years leading up to 1994, when I married Mauri, and the years following. [...]
Sherry | October 3, 2007
Every year in October our pastoral team heads out to the beautiful Oregon coast for a retreat. My coworker, Denise, and I get to go too because we’ve somehow convinced the pastors that the team wouldn’t be complete without us. Okay, so that “convinced” part isn’t true; Quakers are especially good at not making “pastor” [...]
Sherry | April 21, 2007
All you guitar enthusiasts will appreciate who we heard tonight. He was fabulous!
Sherry | February 24, 2007
I just returned from Florida without a tan but with lots of wonderful connections with my extended family who live there. I hadn’t been planning a trip to that side of the country but something came up that seemed to widen the map gap between us. So I called, and my brother, John, not only [...]
Sherry | December 21, 2006
The older I get the more conscious I become of the futility of saying, “I’ll never forget such and such or so and so.” Instead I try to say, “I hope I never forget … “
I hope I never forget the instant response of my younger friend Michelle when I asked her if she would [...]
Sherry | December 14, 2006
Earlier this week we met some friends at Applebee’s for a late dinner date. Lots of words crossed back and forth across the table as we got caught up on each other’s lives. Then Dave asked, “Do you guys still play that game at the table?” No need to ask “What game?” because we both [...]
Sherry | October 26, 2006
I get tired of TV as an unwinder and have taken to reading blogs on my laptop. Mauri has our house set up with wireless Internet so I can choose between several comfortable places to plop. Tonight I’m supine, knees forming a tent under the covers and serving as an angled desk for my computer. [...]
Mauri | September 1, 2006
After some delay…the rest of the (former) NFC Quatet tunes are posted on the music page - so you can give a listen. There’s just something about men singing together. (’sorry for that chauvinistic sounding outburst…but not so very)
Sherry | August 20, 2006
Every spring our ancient backyard gravenstein apple tree awakens from winter in glorious blossoms. While I always enjoy its beauty, I also begrudge the inevitible mess it will cause in a few months as it drops its ripened fruit all over the ground. I have no good reason to feel this way since I’m not [...]