by Karen | Jan 5, 2022 | News from Anne
Happy New Year! The mashup of New Year, New Rector, and New Variant means that we have… A New Service Schedule beginning this week! I know we’re all tired of all the challenges and changes that this pandemic has brought (on days when I’m feeling positive, I can call...
by Karen | Jan 5, 2022 | News from Anne
I don’t know if this will resonate with anyone else, but the last two years have done a number on a couple different parts of my brain, especially how I use words. On top of the stress and isolation and online communication weirdnesses of the pandemic, I’ve spent a...
by superadmin | Dec 25, 2021 | News from Anne
A few years ago, I was telling the Godly Play Advent story to a group of children after our Advent festival, where we’d made a bunch of Advent crafts. Some of you might have seen this story, but it involves the kids gathering around on the floor, and the storyteller...
by superadmin | Dec 25, 2021 | News from Anne
Welcome Over the last several years, at some point during Advent, I have found myself all of a sudden to be irritable, snappy, angry, exhausted. It surprises me each year, without fail, and then I sort of wake up and remember what’s going on. Oh yeah. It was right...
by Karen | Dec 23, 2021 | News from Anne
I don’t know if this is true for anyone else, but this week has been pulling me in lots of different directions! On one side, the bad news about the Omicron variant seems to be getting worse each day. Our family was particularly hit by Friday’s news that a vaccine for...
by Karen | Dec 23, 2021 | News from Anne
Several years ago, I was driving with my friend Betsey to a conference we were leading when we worked together for the diocese of Northern California. We were driving along a road at the north end of the San Francisco Bay that goes right along the water for many...