Daily Connector | Reparations Committee Part 1 | Adam Glass
I am incredibly privileged to be asked to be on our church’s committee to help guide our reparations initiatives. Each member of the Reparations Committee has been asked to share with the congregation about our ongoing conversations, and I get to go first. So I thought I’d start at the…
Daily Connector | Transforming dough | Ruth Leonard
Junior youth made soft pretzels today. We learned a little pretzel history while we worked. Here are a few photos.
Daily Connector | How is winter going? | Dan Halterman
I was not logged in for CMC worship on January 3. My intention to participate diminished at full tilt while my body was in full tilt before crashing in a full chin-plant on asphalt and ending a lovely, until that moment, morning run. That sound blast in my head was…
Daily Connector | Jigsaw Puzzles | Nancy Franke
One of my distractions during the pandemic has been jigsaw puzzles. I used to work on jigsaw puzzles during my college breaks to destress. Having rarely indulged in this pastime since then, I rediscovered puzzling to be a good way to fill some otherwise empty hours. When Jim and Patti…
Daily Connector | Living in Community during Covid | Cindy Fath
While Jim has worked out of state for six-week stretches of time in 2020, I’ve been mostly at home. However, I am far from “home alone.” Two years ago, we purchased a large home (circa 1853) in North Linden with 0.8 acres, 5 ½ baths and 7 bedrooms. Three generations…
Daily Connector | Two book recommendations | Fred Suter
About 6 months ago my brother, John, told me about the book “Reclaiming Conversation” by Sherry Turkle. Our daughter, Leah, asked me in October what I wanted for Christmas and I said I wanted this book by Sherry Turkle. So, for a Christmas gift she gave me this book and…
Daily Connector | Mentor and Mentee Trivia Night | Gretchen Geyer
The pandemic has certainly altered the ways that mentors and mentees are able to connect but those relationships continue to blossom. I’ve heard of, or participated in, many fun activities: game night, cooking lessons, crafting and more. Last Friday night was no exception. Nine mentor/mentee pairs came together for a…
Daily Connector | Sarasota Sage Returns | Michele Dicke
Joe Newman was back in our news again. (I hope you recall this gentleman I introduced you to last spring who, at age 107, drove a cherry red Mercedes convertible he purchased from his dentist.) Celebrating his 108th birthday January 13, he was tracked down by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune staff…
Daily Connector | Discovering My Polish Roots: DNA Relatives and the Genealogy Puzzle | Larry Less
A brief recap from three blogs that I posted in October. My Polish history has been shrouded in mystery. Many years ago, I was told that my Grandfather had only one brother and that they both immigrated to America around 1905, I was not able to identify his brother. Then…
Daily Connector | How is winter going? | Dan Halterman
Grey Many more grey-sky days than sunny. At least fifty shades. Peter Yoder disdains a blue sky in his paintings. I look at the sky regularly, day and night, and enjoy cloud-gazing, thunder-storm roiling bulges, and sunsets that distribute unpaintable variations. A good sunset, often delightfully enhanced by air pollutants,…
