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women

• Being Mormon, women

  Honorable Mention: By name

  05.16.10 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  When I started seminary in ninth grade, our teacher, a traditionalist, an earnest-but-uninspiring man, told us that the story of the Old Testament was about covenants and inheritance, about first sons and birthright and how the Lord’s chosen usually turned out not to be the first son anyway, because the first son sold his birthright [...]

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  The deep pink hat society

  02.23.10 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  A week ago, I was walking to Chrysanthemum’s house for our morning constitutional, and I waved to another friend driving by in her pristine black minivan. She is the kind of lady (Barbie) who I would normally not bother to make friends with because she is too-perfect looking (I am a reverse-appearance snob), but I [...]

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  Don’t think about that, think about this

  01.26.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Today, though I didn’t much feel like it, I went to a quilting bee for Haiti organized by Kalli (with LDS Humanitarian Services). I wasn’t there long; I’m not an expert quilt-tier. But even that forty-five minutes of being with fun ladies and thinking about something besides my own complaints, really helped. I mean, physically [...]