A Few Words About Religion
I was not raised Catholic. My family attended and had been lectured to in Presbytarian churches and for a short time, Unitarian, but I converted while in college once I started going to the old St. George's with my dorm roommate. It fit me like a glove and I felt at home there despite my ignorance of the exotic rituals and prayers everyone else knew by heart. When I say that I am Catholic I say it with the caveat that I am an American Catholic , which is to say I do not agree with everything that comes out of the Vatican. Sorry. I have no issue with homosexuality. Love is love, and people are lucky and blessed to find it wherever they find it. I believe that priests should be allowed to marry and that women should be accorded more prominent positions within the church structure. There's more, but let's just leave it that I realize the Pope is not doing a little jig everytime I open my mouth and declare I'm Catholic. For the totter to that teeter though, I've been t...
My goal is to turn into a baseball nerd this year. I bought a Cubs coffee cup at the Chicago airport the other day. I am inching my way toward baseball nerd-dom.
ReplyDeleteYes!! You go,girl, baby steps! I had the opening day game on in my patient's room on the local radio station, WLW. That seems to be the way to really hear the game with the familiar voices of the hometown commentators. We always say that we're going to go down to a game, but the costs just keep going up and up and up.
ReplyDeleteI'l keep an ear out for tidbits about the Cubs and send them along to you in support of your quest for nerd-dom!!