The Archives
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summer
Have we met before?
09.06.08 | Permalink | 10 CommentsWhen 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 [...]
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book review
Eat, Drink, Vampire, Bella: a Review of The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
08.25.08 | Permalink | 32 CommentsThe perfect romance novel of all time is The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery. It was great when I was an innocent twelve, and it’s fantastic now that I’m the 31 year-old mother of three girls, who I would love to have read every single word of Montgomery’s. In fact, if they wanted to read [...]
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church, writing
Awkward, like Steve Carrell, only not as funny
06.22.08 | Permalink | 8 CommentsWe 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 [...]
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movie reviews
Passage to Zarahemla — Would’ve Been Better If We Could Have Seen Zarahemla
(This is a guest post by Dick, who also blogs under the name Tom Johnson. I was hesitant to review this movie, but Dick was eager to see it, so he agreed to write it in exchange for a free copy. Let me just add that Passage to Zarahemla was much better than the last [...]
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