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November 2008

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• writing

  And I wouldn’t care what anyone else thought of it

  11.30.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  And so it is done. Though there were months during my blogging honeymoon that I posted 40-50 times in thirty days, this month, this November, has just about quenched my desire to EXPRESS MYSELF. I know my youngest sister would find that hard to believe. Once Mary and Karen and I were driving along a [...]

• writing

  Not drinking enough, apparently

  11.29.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Today is the penultimate day of National Blog Posting Month, and it has been much more of an experience than I expected. An experience in the way that the week-long wilderness survival trip I went on as a senior in high school and the first few months after bringing a newborn home from the hospital [...]

• personal history

  Lessons from My Father-in-law: A Story of Farm Animals and Utter Gentlemanliness

  11.28.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  This Thanksgiving we’ve been blessed with a visit from Dick’s dad. We haven’t seen any of Dick’s family since we moved from Florida last August, and we miss them all, almost as much as the beach and Habana Cafe. Dick’s family was not the big Mormon family I’d always hoped to marry in to. They [...]

• marriage

  But he seemed like such a nice, quiet guy

  11.27.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Wednesday night as we waited for Australia to start, my sisters and I discussed men. Mary’s marriage imploded earlier this year, and Karen is now much less starry-eyed at the prospect of love and romance than Mary and I were when we were nineteen. Karen asked us how she could ever know if it was [...]

• movie reviews

  “To make ‘um people belong-a you”

  11.26.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Last Sunday a good brother got up to speak about . . . honestly I can’t remember what his gospel topic was, but I remember the story he began with: When John was a little boy, his mother shooed the kids out the back of the house while she showed it to potential buyers. One [...]

• works for me

  Confessions of a Martha

  11.25.08 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  In high school, Melinda and I petitioned the guidance counselor to waive our vocational class requirement. AP chemistry and biology should count, we said, because they are vocational if you’re delusional enough in your youth to assume that of course you’ll become a doctor. And how lame would it be to have to take Foods [...]

• commentary

  Because They Would Do The Work Anyway

  11.24.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Leslie Kaufman had an interesting article about caregivers in the New York Times last week. It explored the special care that a caregiver who is related to her charge can provide. According to one such caregiver, Tracy Keil, she* can help her charges who don’t want “just a baby sitter” to live as they would [...]

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