The Capezzas
Rick and Rachel Capezza live and love in Spokane, WA. They are parents of Kyrie Eleison, Antonio Giovanni, and Epiphany Joy.
Hmmm (I imagine Rachel cringing about now.Posted by Rick on November 18th, 2005
Witherington on Christ the Lord: Out of EgyptPosted by Rick on November 18th, 2005
Note to selfPosted by Rick on November 17th, 2005
Gonzaga under fire over conservative speaker called anti-gay
For lack of better material…Posted by Rachel on November 14th, 2005
Name: Rachel
Birthday: February 29th, 1984
Birthplace: Sacred Heart Hospital, Spokane, WA
Current Location: Monroe, LA
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Dark brown
Height: 5’5”
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Bohemian, English, Scottish, Welsh, German, and the list goes on… I’m a mutt.
The Shoes You Wore Today: I haven’t worn any today yet.
Your Weakness: CANDY
Your Fears: Running out of money, never making it out of Monroe
Your Perfect Pizza: Mushrooms & green peppers
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Be as small and toned as I was before I got pregnant… hehe. Have fun being a mother. Get the diningroom paint job FINISHED
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: lol
Thoughts First Waking Up: “How’d this cute baby get here?” 
Your Best Physical Feature: I have NO idea… Rick would know. But don’t ask him.
Your Bedtime: Usually around midnight after Conan’s monologue
Your Most Missed Memory: Going swimming with friends in the summer & sledding with siblings during winter.
Pepsi or Coke: Coke. I support my father and my husband.
MacDonalds or Burger King: I like McDonalds. You can’t get strawberry shakes at the BK here but you can at the closest McDonalds.
Single or Group Dates: I don’t date anymore… I’m MARRIED. The fun ends there.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither. I like Luzianne.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate.
Cappuccino or Coffee: Hot Cocoa. 
Do you Smoke: not since I got pregnant, so it’s been over a year. And I probably won’t get back into it either.. not that I was ever “into it.”
Do you Swear: Hmm, try not to, seeing as how I have a growing child that’s taking in everything I say and do now.
Do you Sing: Quite often, yes.
Do you Shower Daily: Yes, and you would too if you were covered in milk every morning.
Have you Been in Love: I still am!
Do you want to go to College: I did back when I was bored before I had a baby. I doubt I’ll ever go back.
Do you want to get Married: I am married, and it’s great!
Do you believe in yourself: Um.. I believe that I am able to do all things through Christ who strengthens me!
Do you get Motion Sickness: Not really.
Do you think you are Attractive: Rick considers me attractive..
Are you a Health Freak: no, I eat WAY too much sugar.
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes, amazingly!
Do you like Thunderstorms: They’re great… a little crazy down here in LA.
Do you play an Instrument: violin
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: I had a smirnoff a few days ago.
In the past month have you Smoked: Nope.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: I’m taking antibiotics…are those considered drugs?
In the past month have you gone on a Date: with my husband, probably
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Of course!
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: I’m not a big fan of oreos.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No, but now I’m craving it.
In the past month have you been on Stage: No.
In the past month have you been Dumped: No.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been called a Tease: Probably.
Ever been Beaten up: Nope.
Ever Shoplifted: Nope.
How do you want to Die: With Rick. I want our deaths to be simultaneous.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: a good wife and mom and maybe music teacher
What country would you most like to Visit: Italy…. I want to take that trip to Positano
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown
Favourite Hair Color: Almost black
Short or Long Hair: short
Height: 5’9”
Weight: At least twice my weight 
Best Clothing Style: slacks and button up shirts.
Number of Drugs I have taken: None that are recreational…other than that, I’m not sure what qualifies as a drug. But I’m sure I’ve taken several.
Number of CDs I own: maybe 30? and they’re all Rick’s.
Number of Piercings: One hole in each ear.
Number of Tattoos: None.
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I don’t know… with how wonderful life is, it’s hard to regret anything because I know that God used every experience to bring me where I am now.
Back to normalPosted by Rachel on November 14th, 2005
So this past week I’ve been sick and finally had to get antibiotics. They made me feel better SO fast, and I’m doing great now. I’d kinda let the house go because I felt horrible, but last night I was back to my old self and thoroughly cleaned for 2 hours while Kyrie happily slept in her swing. She’s also getting better at entertaining herself with whatever fun object she sees, so that’s making everything easier. But there haven’t been any recent pictures of her because I usually am the one who takes them and I’ve been waaay under the weather. But the flow of cute baby pictures should continue soon. For now I have to check on a squealing, hiccuping little girl in the other room and then make myself a late breakfast.
Titanic PostmodernismPosted by Rick on November 12th, 2005
In Evangelism Outside the Box: New Ways to Help People Experience the Good News, Rick Richardson uses the movie Titanic as a symbol of the cultural shift into postmodernism. I haven’t seen the movie in seven years, and I wasn’t really thinking about the philosophy of the movie when I saw it. It was just boring romantic junk to me. Richardson sheds some new light, and it explains to me why the movie was so wildly successful:
The movie Titanic provides striking images of this shift in cultural vision. The ship represents all that the modern has made possible. People have unlocked the secrets of nature and the world and created a ship that stands as a monument to their creative imagination and their technological and economic capacity to triumph. But what all these moderns don’t realize is that they are trapped on a ship that is doomed to sink under its own weight.
The larger story is mirrored in the personal story of Rose. She is engaged to marry a great modern capitalist who controls the world through aggressive, visionary application of his reason and power. He is the lord of his world, and he protects and privilege with all his power. Understandably, Rose is not happy. She is trapped, screaming out, suffocated by this world of power and privilege and lordly men.
Jack Dawson, the artist, the man who lives for the moment, the man who creates his own meaning and morality—his own reality—saves Rose in “every way a person can be saved.” In gripping and visually captivating drama, the ship of modernism goes down. But in the end, all that death and destruction doesn’t matter. What really matters is that the heart will go on (as expressed in the movie’s theme song). And so the new cultural vision of the creative artist who makes reality and lives in a world of emotional truth and relational connection, is born and baptized and even triumphs. In a poignant moment, after telling the story of the Titanic, Rose staggers to the rail of another ship and throws the most valuable diamond in the world into the sea as a tribute to the man who led her into the new postmodern world and who died saving her decades earlier.
Thanks, Matt.Posted by Rick on November 10th, 2005
Matt has summed up my existence in three drawings
