» Next Entries
Category
commentary
-
Barack Obama, commentary, environment
Note to self: never move to Kansas
When Dick and I moved to Florida in June 2004, we arrived just in time for the worst hurricane seasons in recent history. Now we’ve moved to Utah in time for record snowfalls and plunging (plunging!) temperatures. I vow now, oh ye inhabitants of tornado alley and volatile volcanic regions, that we’ll stay put here [...]
-
commentary, LDS Church
What I would ask Mitt Romney if I were concerned about his Mormonism
12.08.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI don’t know why he hasn’t been asked this question, or, if he has, why his answer hasn’t gotten media attention (not that, of course, it has anything to do with his fitness for running the nation, but, if I were hoping to complicate things for him, I’d want to ask). Why hasn’t anyone asked [...]
-
blogging, commentary, Dick, LDS Church
Get thee a blog!
10.28.07 | Permalink | 6 CommentsI feel a bit awkward writing on this topic as I’ve been quite delinquent in posting the past couple months (to your great sorrow, I’m sure). But I heard such a disturbing thing a couple days ago that I cannot remain silent — surprising as it may (not) be that I feel rather strongly about [...]
-
commentary, Family
Higher IQ’s and Virginity, too
06.22.07 | Permalink | 15 CommentsWhat do higher IQ’s after age 12 and being twice as likely to still be a virgin at age 21 have in common? Apparently, birth order. Being the firstborn, to be precise. The average difference in IQ is 3 points (4.5 between first and third children), and seems to hold when all other factors (parent’s [...]
-
commentary, health, Jane
It’s not a lifestyle change, it’s a diet
06.06.07 | Permalink | 18 CommentsYou hear a lot about how diets are bad, and that what we need to do to lose weight (or fix some other problem) permanently is to make a “lifestyle change.” We recently held our first (and probably last) Johnson Weight Loss Challenge. After the contest, Grampa expressed frustration that he had not met his [...]
-
commentary
On motive: Why do we do what we do?
05.31.07 | Permalink | 11 CommentsI’ve said before that I am interested in why we do what we do as much as what we do. Here is my list of possible motives for everything I do on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or lifetime basis. I assume that many of my actions are motivated by two or more of these [...]
-
commentary, Family
On self-sufficiency, or, How I almost went on WIC
05.29.07 | Permalink | 40 CommentsA few months ago, I was feeling angry, resentful, and poor. I was angry (with myself and the housing market) that my family lives in a dangerous neighborhood. I was resentful of some friends and relatives and many other welfare program recipients in our country who were or had been on Medicaid, WIC and/or foodstamps [...]
» Next Entries
Subscribe by email
