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• personal history

  Lessons from My Father-in-law: A Story of Farm Animals and Utter Gentlemanliness

  11.28.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  This Thanksgiving we’ve been blessed with a visit from Dick’s dad. We haven’t seen any of Dick’s family since we moved from Florida last August, and we miss them all, almost as much as the beach and Habana Cafe.

  Dick’s family was not the big Mormon family I’d always hoped to marry in to. They were [...]

• 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 [...]

• blogging

  I’d gaze at my navel, but have you seen that thing?

  08.07.08 | Permalink | 17 Comments

  {Back to HELP WANTED.}
  A few weeks ago my aunt and uncle unsubscribed from my blog’s email updates. Which is like saying “I think you suck, and your writing does too.” Ouch. But it was fine, because I’m a grown-up. Though I may have yelled at Susan to JUST EAT YOUR DING-DANG MACARONI when she asked [...]

• 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 and [...]