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About: E Riggs

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http://turtlemom2.wordpress.com

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Late 60’s Orthodox Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, registered nurse with PhD, disabled. Have wonderful service dog - Emmy! Married to the Ol’ Curmudgeon - and I’m pretty doggone happy about that! Interests: Orthodox Christianity; reading; service dogs; computers, woodworking Greatest Life Experiences: Converting to Orthodoxy, Caving in Idaho, Attending Russian Orthodox Choir Conference (Oh! that music!). Favorite Things Back in High School: Reading; classical music - nerdy things. Favorite Things Back in College: Reading; classical music - nerdy things Favorite Things to do Now: Reading; classical music, computer stuff, surfing the internet - nerdy things - no real change! Favorite TV Programs: Anything about forensics Favorite Movies: The Chosen; Ostrov; 84 Charing Cross Rd; Air Force One; Becket; Indiana Jones; Star Wars; Favorite Music: Russian Orthodox (Christian) chant; Bach; Mozart's Magic Flute Favorite Quote: The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.”~*~ St. Seraphim of Sarov, Spiritual Instructions Favorite Authors: Robert Heinlein; Mercedes Lackey; Anne MacCaffrey, Fr. Steven Ritter, Sarah Elizabeth Cowrie, St. Nikolai Velimirovic - among many others

Posts by E Riggs:

• 31 January 12 The Song of God

• 25 December 11 Christmas at the Gas Station!

• 31 July 11 The Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils

• 15 May 11 Timeline of Christianity I

• 15 March 11 Orthodox Christians in Japan Ask for Prayers

• 12 February 11 Streaming Liturgy Services!

• 6 February 11 New Martyrs of Russia

• 12 January 11 Post-a-Week – A New Start!

• 4 January 11 Natural Cycle Liturgical Clock

• 3 January 11 Do Not Avoid the Sorrows

• 26 December 10 Sunday of the Holy Ancestors of Christ (2nd Sunday before Nativity)

• 16 December 10 Three Things I Want to Do

• 5 December 10 28th Sunday after Pentecost

• 18 October 10 Kool Kitchen!

• 5 October 10 Eastern Orthodox Humor #2

• 2 September 10 A Hymn by St. Ambrose

• 15 June 10 Another Summer, Another Fast

• 6 May 10 Orthodox Links

• 1 May 10 An Evening Hymn by St. Gregory Nazianzen

• 29 April 10 Mid-Pentecost

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