the unlikely orange

i am so ready to get lost. with the stupid writer's strike, it seems like most of the tv has been lost. but tonight, it is back. as i write it is about 3.5 hours away. click here for lots of hoopla. otherwise tune in to abc at 8 for a refresher course in what has happened, and get ready for season 4. i hope its awesome.

as i begin to write this post this morning, i need to tell you that it is before 5 am and i have been up for awhile. i'm in the hotel corridor (again) at the computer station, and cade is sitting next to me in his car seat which is sitting on one of those wheeled racks that hotels use to move luggage. he is on that contraption because i used it to wheel him around the hotel several times as i tried to get him to fall asleep at about 4:15. i needed him to fall asleep at 4:15 because he woke up at 4:13 when i brought him through the cold morning into the hotel. i was bringing him through the cold morning into the hotel because we had just spent the previous 40 minutes driving through extremely rural pennsylvania (quarryville, anyone?). we were driving through extremely rural pennsylvania at 3 something in the morning because i couldn't take his screaming in the hotel room anymore. neither could shannon. neither could jackson. so now he is sleeping in the hallway. on a luggage rac...

hi friends. so i'm writing this morning from a quiet hotel hallway. it is 6:30 in the morning and they have computer stations around the building, so i thought i would take advantage of them and write a couple of lines. what is on my mind this morning is the very thing that we are both doing: reading and writing this blog. three of my fellow young clergy members from the conference (there aren't too many of us young ones!) addressed the whole group last night with a session on blogging. it was an interesting session for me since i am one of the very few (i think i saw two hands) who were already blogging. but as they spoke, one thing kept coming up over and over again: purpose. what is the purpose of my blog? i'm just not sure how to answer that right now. i guess it serves many purposes for me at this point. it is a place for reflection. it is a place for self-awareness. it is a place for helping people stay in contact with me and my family. it is a place for me...

so my parents came into town this weekend and we had the second half of jack's birthday party. shannon was not at all pleased with her first attempt at making a castle cake with dragon accessory, so she tried again. below you will see some pictures from jack's birthday, take two. marzipan dragon: three dollars and fifty nine cents. castle cake: ten dollars and 72 cents. castle cake equipped with fire breathing dragon: fourteen dollars and 31 cents. your son screaming during the singing of happy birthday because he just wants to play with his presents: priceless. aww, the joys of parenting. in all honesty, we must pause (as we should every incredible day) to recognize just how blessed we are. we are blessed with incredible family who will travel long distances to celebrate important days with us. we are blessed with family and friends who love our children. we are blessed with two awesome sons who are discovering what it means to be alive in this crazy world every day....

last summer shannon and i had received a gift certificate to a place we had never heard of called the pluckemin inn. the gift card was for $350 and we couldn't imagine how we would spend that kind of money. well, as my mom and dad are in town which gave us free babysitting, we decided to finally use this gift card last night. it was a wonderful dinner. here's what we ate: shannon: firsts: hearts of palm, grapefruit, avocado, peanuts, mache & fresh coriander seconds: golden tilefish, shrimp dumplings, smoked hon-shimeji & citrus-celery nage thirds: corn-fed Angus strip steak, confit peanut potatoes & merlot reduction dessert: coconut & banana "mille-feuille" with peanut brittle dustMaldon salt and coconut espuma greg: firsts: Pluckemin Salad: Three Meadows Farm lettuces, seasonal garnishes & dressing seconds: herb crusted wild Alaskan salmon, coriander broth & maitake thirds: well, this one isn't on their online menu , so i can't m...

happy third birthday to jackson andrew milinovich!

"swamp" paper collage on heavy cardboard gregory a. milinovich i have been going through piles and piles of old collages the last few days. it seems i've made a couple hundred collages in the last eight years, and i never really kept track of them, so i've been trying to just get their information down so i at least know how many i have, etc. now that i've sold a few here and have had to say goodbye to them, i feel like i need this. in the process i have found many collages that i had forgotten about, some that i would be embarassed for anyone to see (i made that ?), and many that just sort of show how i've grown as an artist. you can bet that i will be sharing them here from time to time. the one above is one that uses color, line and pattern more than juxtaposition, and so is a bit of a departure for me. maybe that's why it sticks out a bit for me. i am drawn to it. ~ other random items for today: ~ -my parents come to visit tonight until sa...