MaryO

Jam up the works any legal way you can. #FOIA #ICE

Chocolate banana muffin!

Mine is fluffy and pretty and I have paid a nice 14 year old to shovel.

On holidays, and transitions The image of a snake shedding its skin is a fairly common one for life changes.

On holidays, and transitions open.substack.com/pub/maryosha... This #Christmas, what #changes have you been through since last year? What #transitions are you celebrating/mourning/pondering?

Tough holiday times, and gratitude Today is a day that is embedded deep in the United States’ culture.

On #Thanksgiving complex #emotions can surface. Includes a reminder about #helplines open.substack.com/pub/maryosha...

Community, loneliness, and looking out for the other That loneliness is physically as well as emotionally and spiritually unhealthy, is now widely accepted.

open.substack.com/pub/maryosha... #community #empathy #altruism

I can report them but only one URL got taken down so far. I have reported them to Google as well.

They are awful. They have done it to my organization several times, by registering for a Zoom event and screen recording it.

I am at @emblemhealth.bsky.social ‘s #cybersecurity conference in NYC and really impressed by NYS Chief Cyber Officer Colin Ahearn. He understands the small town needs.

YouTube video by Christ Church Pelham Bible Study: Genesis 38

Not a #Bible study for the #evangelical or easily #shocked. youtu.be/Tgx7E-_jIl8?...

There was an editorial cartoon that showed Charlie Kirk in heaven—explaining to the children of school shootings why their deaths were necessary.

I think the Mets have some kind of deal with NYC therapists and bartenders.

The thestral community A couple of months ago, my church community had an evening conversation about crisis and community.

open.substack.com/pub/maryosha... #death #thestral #friendship

It is in the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer for weddings and ordinations. I have heard it many times, and was at a bishop’s consecration where somebody stood up and objected (the objector had made it known he was going to do that, but the service still stopped while he read his objection).

(Just seeing this) The NYC motorcycle club is called The Sirens.

The world is a better place because you are in it! Happy happy!

This is a great house on a wonderful block in #Wakefield in the #Bronx — check it out if you want to own a home and detached garage! www.trulia.com/home/4428-br...

The mysteries we leave behind Unlabeled photographs and objects with no identity

The mysteries we leave behind at #death #loss #family open.substack.com/pub/maryosha...

The motorcycle club that leads the march is the Sirens Women+’ s Motorcycle Club of New York, and they did indeed lead off after the politicians. I drive their support car.

For those of you who whine about #paywalls: In 1995, if you bought the @nytimes.com every day, you would have spent $286–$603 in today’s dollars. An all-access subscription, not on sale, is $300 today. #FreePress doesn’t mean the people who create and protect it, don’t deserve a living wage.

If police and TSA have to wear uniforms, and the former have body cameras, why can’t ICE be held to the same standard?

Andrea's writing: a memoir of transition On editing a deceased spouse's words

In #LGBT #Pride month, I am working on preserving my #trans wife's voice and memory. Andrea's writing: a memoir of transition open.substack.com/pub/maryosha...

Southern Baptists to Vote on Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage

#LGBT #Baptists are after #same-sex #marriage. Southern Baptists to Vote on Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

Caffeine!

Loss and memory in the 21st century The fragility of electronic artifacts, and the Mirror of Erised and 99 Cent Dreams

#Death and #data and #memory in loss open.substack.com/pub/maryosha...

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

Baptismal promises We are now in Pentecost—the season of baptism and the Holy Spirit.

#Pentecost often brings a renewal of #Baptismal promises: what do we really commit to? open.substack.com/pub/maryosha...

A trans woman's life, in writing Most of my readers know that my wife, Andrea Sears, died suddenly last August.

My late wife was #trans. In these dark days, I am working on sharing her story #lgbt #pride open.substack.com/pub/maryosha...

Who's evangelizing whom? The Great Commission, as I understand it, is for followers of Jesus Christ to go and make disciples for Jesus, of all peoples and nations.

Thinking about #Christians spreading the #goodnews. open.substack.com/pub/maryosha...

She was more appropriate than Trump.