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• the world

  At least I’ve never been to Haiti (or Libya, I’ve never been to Libya, or Yemen or Bahrain . . . )

  03.16.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I wasn’t going to say anything about the tragedy in Japan, because it’s annoying how people make it about themselves, from a mommy blogger telling you how she spent three months  in Hon-Atsugi to Diane Rehm talking about how the earthquake and tsumani will affect the American economy. Amid the horror and the sorrow for [...]

• commentary, the world

  Insha’Allah, Egypt

  02.01.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The other mothers at dance class probably think I’m crazy, and maybe I am in a strange hormonal flux right now, but I couldn’t stop leaking tears as I read the updates on the eighth day of protests in Egypt. A mass of protests that look to be successful now, with Mubarak scheduled to announce [...]

• Being Mormon, politics, the world

  Election fraud comes to Seagull Fountain

  11.02.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I told Tom someone must have heard that I planned to vote FOR the swimming pool General Obligation Bond, so they took my name off the rolls. I was pretty skeeved. I voted in that very same room (at Callie’s school) two years ago, so I know I’m registered to vote here. Maybe Brother X [...]

• book review, the world

  Easy Enough

  07.27.10 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  I just finished Three Cups of Tea. One of the best things about our electricity fast was the books I read, especially since, for a former English major, I don’t always read well. I devoured Hunger Games and Catching Fire; I cried through The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, I loved/hated Eat Pray [...]

• the world

  Who I want them to be

  09.11.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Last week we were invited to dinner at my grandma’s, with my aunt and her son, my cousin, the one who had the internship at the UN this summer. Apparently we can relate to David and his lovely wife Andrea because we’ve enjoyed living out of the country and we like to talk about doing [...]

• the world, united states

  Belonging

  11.10.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  As we walked into church on Sunday, I looked around at my family. The hallways were crowded and my arms were full of snacks for the nursery, bags of diapers and toys, binders and scriptures. I thought Thank goodness no one needs to be carried anymore, or to have their hand held. I’ve been appreciating [...]

• motherhood, the world

  Did You Hear the One About the Sworn Virgins in Albania?

  06.25.08 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  Once upon a time in northern Albania, there was a custom of women becoming men. They dressed like men, moved about in society as men, and were content to relinquish traditional female experiences like pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and childrearing, and simple, normal human experiences like sex and the companionship of marriage, with its soaring joys, [...]