• UU liFE for the servant of Mercutio and that Italian grandmother from Hoboken
    What’s more remarkable than starting an amateur acting career at age 60? — Taking John along?with you. UUFE’s?Jane Terebey?traces her path from the Catholic-Protestant crucible, through a career in the infosphere, to center stage in community theater. ? And talks about the role she’d like to play — ?and other Big Questions. UU liFE: Where was you raised, ...
  • UU liFE on Fifth Avenue
    UUFE’s Nina Wahl traces her path through five or six foster-churches, along?Wall Street and Fifth Avenue, to UU liFE’s Five Big Questions. ?   UU liFE: Where were you raised, and how? Nina: I was born into a colorful but dysfunctional family in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I was the youngest of what I knew then to be 4 children. ...
  • Kristin and her dog are both working on their Masters
    UUFE’s Kristin Wilkersen answers the Five Big Questions and talks about driving her dad’s Suburban, surviving summer with the kids,?working two jobs, and doing grad school with Drake the black lab. ?And the remarkable-ness of every day.   ?The first day I entered? UUFE, I felt at home and I knew I was here to stay.?   Where were ...
  • Pig brains, squirrel gravy, fried okra, and frog giggin’
    UUFE’s Lisa Menditch tells of her journey from the hills of North Carolina to Unitarian Pescaterianism and UUFE. ?And she answers the Five Big Questions.   “I serve UUFE to make?my little corner of the world a nicer place.”   Where were you raised, and how? I grew up, mostly barefoot from the first of April into September, in the foothills ...
  • Sailing Away in Tall Ships
    UUFE’s Judy Harrald?makes her way from CSI to IRS, down the Colorado, up the Rockies, the Alps, and the Himalaya, and across the Atlantic in tall ships. ?And she navigates the Five Big Questions. Where were you raised, and how? I was raised in a small town in Massachusetts that was made up mostly of French Canadians.? ...
  • General Assembly is like attending a carnival – a sensory and cognitive kaleidoscope
    (From Ann Davis’s Sunday presentation at UUFE, July 24.) GA begins with the opening celebration including the banner parade.? It feels somewhat like the opening ceremony parade of the Olympics when the national teams march around the stadium.? Sue and I carried our banner around the huge hall with a march cadence being played and the ...
  • ?UU liFE and the Annual Winter Migration
    UUFE?s Jay Anglada answers the Five Big Questions,?tells about life between home here and home in Vero Beach, and reveals the secret to 54 years of strife-free marriage. ?(No surprise there, Jay!) UU liFE: ?Where were you raised, and how? Jay: ?My younger brother and I grew up in suburban New York City and later in suburban ...
  • Voluntarily unemployed? How do I get started!
    UUFE’s Dave Moore?answers the Five Big Questions and talks about walking and biking in rural Japan, seeing the kids settle on their own, and trying out for the UUFE usher job. ?And if he doesn’t get the job? ?Hit the road again with the pop-up.   UU liFE:? Where were you raised, and how? Dave:? I was raised ...
  • Sailing off to Paradox
    UUFE?s Episcopal friend, Doug Jurrius, answers The Five Big Questions and dodges a few more.? But still reveals a little about himself, about the paradox and synthesis in UU-ism, and what his Episcopal friends think UUs do under the?full moon.   Where were you raised, and how? Many places, starting in birth in Newport RI, there followed McElhinney ...
  • Dances With Doulas
    UUFE’s Lauren Harton answers The Five Big Questions and tells about beating rheumatoid arthritis, Yale Midwifery, working as a Doula in Seattle, and teaching and leading our UUFE kids in Easton. ? And she shares her favorite meat dish recipe. ?(She’s a vegetarian.) UU liFE: ?Where were you raised, and how? Lauren: ?I was raised on ...