Dear Members and Friends of UMA, Thank you for all the well wishes and prayers after my emergency eye surgery yesterday!    Things went well, I slept well last night and actually feel much better today than after other surgeries.  The hardest part is that I have to keep my head down and look at

A Rev Barb Lenten Musing.  We are more than half way through our Lenten journey to the most holy of days in our Christian story.  In this sacred story, on the night before Jesus goes to the cross where he will be crucified, he  tells his followers to put away their swords.  While on the

Good Morning UMA Members and Friends, First I need to make a correction to the prayers.  Dixie asks for prayers for her two nieces, Cindy and Carol. Carol is having a biopsy this week, and her sister Cindy is moving to NY with her two dogs, she is leaving today.  It is a blessing that Dixie is

Dear Members and Friends of UMA, As many of you know, I lived in Ithaca for 30 years, owned a business on the Commons for a few of those years and worked at the Unitarian Church as the Youth Leader for several more and was the PTA Co-President of a very diverse elementary school.  I