April 2010

The Archives

• an earth day offering

  Winter of the mind

  04.22.10 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  I don’t suffer from depression. At least, I am 99% sure that I do not, but this pregnancy has been hard. And it’s tempting to just wait it out (it will be over in four months!), without complaining (so much) on here about how I feel. Nobody likes a whiner, after all, and it seems [...]

• Being Mormon, Spot

  I am a Child of God

  04.18.10 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Spot singing I am a Child of God from shannon johnson on Vimeo.

• Being Mormon, motherhood

  but . . . well, he’s married to a feminist

  04.17.10 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  Yesterday I drove Tom to the airport for a short business trip. Eight hours later I hadn’t heard from him, and I couldn’t get him on the phone or email or IM. (Maybe I should’ve tried Twitter.) Susan and Spot and I had taken a long, late afternoon nap, so we dawdled through leftovers and [...]

• living deliberately, summer

  Planning an electricity fast

  04.15.10 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  Four months ago we had a utility bill that was almost twice our usual. Tom was “fixing” our front door, which involved a lot of it being open, also I was cavalierly opening windows in dead of winter for fresh air. So we turned our thermostat down to 60. (With an intermediate stop at 62 [...]

• motherhood, Spot, Susan, writing

  Belly Shots

  04.14.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I don’t believe that writing and motherhood should be incompatible, in fact usually I am adamant that writing makes me a better mother, because it is how I examine motherhood (my life, at this point), and because in the examining I see both the ineffable divinity in every day and the humor (or at least [...]

• Being Mormon, health, labor & delivery

  Prenatal Palliative Care

  04.05.10 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Easter weekend was great. I thought Conference had a whole lotta talks about parenting and motherhood, and let me tell you, it is easy to feel that you are doing your duty as a mother when you are pregnant. That duty is burning up my esophagus as we speak, so “motherhood” = check. Before the [...]