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• summer

  Have we met before?

  09.06.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  When I was a little girl, I wanted to marry a good Mormon boy from a large Mormon family, and in the summers, we would flit from one large family reunion to another. Instead I got Dick, who, after surviving my dad’s family’s reunion, wanted to know whether family reunions were a common thing in [...]

• Daily Dick and Jane

  Spot Scavenges After Church

  07.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I fed Spot and Susan leftover macaroni and cheese after church. I was at the computer (which I rarely am on weekends), suffering from a little post-traumatic stress disorder. Not to belittle those who get PSD from war: sometimes, church IS war. Spot ate most of her noodles and then found some cereal from breakfast. [...]

• miscarriage

  1 in 4: My Miscarriage Story

  07.17.08 | Permalink | 20 Comments

  Question: Did you ever get over your miscarriage? You are the only person that has ever really talked to me about having one, so I hope it’s ok that I ask, but I think I think about it too much, like I was supposed to have a baby last month. My baby would be one month old this week [...]

• church, writing

  Awkward, like Steve Carrell, only not as funny

  06.22.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  We went to the zoo today. My dad’s work was having their yearly ‘company picnic,’ complete with catered lunch and crafts for the kids. Dad dotes on his six grandkids. I know this is what grandparents are supposed to do, but he certainly didn’t dote on me (at least, not that I remember from my [...]

• LDS Church, blogging

  Catholic Church asks The DaVinci Code Author to be Goodwill Ambassador

  04.09.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Not really. Or if they have, I didn’t hear about it. But Dooce is running ads for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). I am a Mormon, and I love Dooce. These things are not incompatible in my little world, but only because I am complex like that. Does the church [...]

• Family, LDS Church, marriage, sisters

  Because I could not strangle you in person

  03.30.08 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  I must warn you: This is not a funny post. I don’t even try to be funny here. But I do gain Greek-tragedy-like catharsis, and so can you! Someone made me mad at church today. Not an uncommon occurrence, though usually I just feel sympathy for the mis-opinionated. Unlike Giselle in Enchanted, I easily recognize [...]

• Family, LDS Church

  Does a kangaroo have a mother too?

  03.23.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Easter was just another opportunity for me to feel oppressed and traumatized as a child. Like Halloween but with less publicizing of how terribly awkward my parents were — at least we didn’t have to hide in the basement from trick-or-treaters on Easter. My parents were your basic conscientious-pagan-tradition-abstainers. We didn’t get Easter bonnets or [...]