Wedding stuff is coming up like shoals on a stormy night. Watch out, gonna get splintered by surprise. Twice today someone has quoted Frederick Buechner, a Presbyterian minister who rarely goes to church, according to my dear friend Dennis Green. (Beuchner? Beuchner? Say it in the voice of Ferris Beuler’s teacher…). Doubt is the ants-in-the-pants of faith, my friend-of-faith Jack Buckley told me (Beuchner said it) earlier today. And Dennis quoted Beuchner as saying, “Don’t just get through your life, as all of us are inclined to do, on automatic pilot, not much noticing anything.” Too right. But I’m suddenly in a muddle about my Catholicism, which I thought I’d…

Mia got into her second year — woo hoo! Remember I mentioned how she is in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and they cut the class in half after the first year? She got in — and it’s funny, she said she got the letter so soon after school ended that they must have had them ready already. No dithering about her, I guess. It makes a mama proud. We’ve had a wild and wacky weekend of too much entertaining, with the Pack (the softball team) over for a BBQ on Saturday (it was Packer Fan Appreciation Day…) and then Father’s Day. All the kids made cards for the…

I have had a request for no more cheese information. So no more cheese. You mean you don’t want to hear the minute details? Ah well. Be there or miss it all… More to follow, and it’s not about cheese.

I had the strangest dream last night, kind of a nightmare, but so real. Not full of monsters. I always say real life is scarier than any imaginary ghosts or monsters anyway. But my dream: Apparently P and I had robbed a bank, in a white-collar way, and got caught (because who gets away with it?) (and it was a DREAM; I have never even imagined robbing a bank). But we were on our way to being sentenced and I was thinking, but wait, we’re having a wedding — but no, no wedding. But the kids — but no, by the time we’d get out, the kids would be grown…

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