Gooseberry Lane

As many of you know from watching The Weather Channel or one of the major media outlets, Hurricane Sandy /Superstorm Sandy (or as I like to...

Hatches battened down...again. For the second time in fourteen months, I am sitting in my house with the windows boarded up, listening t...

What I am exploring with these notes is the question:  what is this faith?  In looking at this question, it is important to remember two t...

But what does that daily faith look like?  When your toddler has emptied the Tupperware all over the kitchen floor for the umpteenth time w...

...and a bit of a rant. Last week in church, the closing hymn was "Earth and All Stars," one of my favorites and one that my dau...

This evening, just before 7:00 PM, my family and I arrived at Ocean Beach Park in New London, CT to enjoy the final Wednesday night magic...

A few days ago, I started looking at "The Sacrament of Penance," written in 1519.  Wow, what an education for a cradle Lutheran! ...

Now that we are approaching fall, one of the busiest times of the year here on Gooseberry Lane, I was thinking back on the beginning of 20...