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Archive for August, 2011
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Knit Together: Back to School Edition
I love back-to-school season. I love it because it means my kids will be back in school and not at home watching too much TV, bickering all day long, and... -
Help Start the Student Review
Ah, seeing this brings me back to the good ole’ BYU days. If you were at BYU in the early 90s and enjoyed the Student Review, please consider donating. They’re... -
I Feel Fine
This week, in video form: 1. Everything was going surpisingly well … 2. And then everything seemed to break — our car, the vacuum and computer. For good measure, someone... -
Getting Glenn Beck’s Blessing
Glenn Beck: How many warnings do you think you’re going to get, and how many warnings do you deserve? This hurricane that is coming thorough the East Coast, for anyone... -
Ride to Church in Queens, NY
Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from my very smart and beautiful 16-year-old niece, Synneve. This post has been all queued up and ready to go for a couple... -
09 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Faith is the Miracle
Faith doesn’t affect anything. It doesn’t cause anything. Faith is a commitment to see the world in a particular way. It’s about choosing to look through the kaleidoscope. -
Staff Stacks
Check out what the Doves and Serpents writers are into now! -
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on your Wrath
Is anyone else skeptical when older people who have been married for a long time say that they have never fought with each other? This seems preposterous to me (although... -
On Starting High School
Dear Kennedy, Today is your first day as a high school freshman. This is madness. When we dropped you off today, I remembered taking you to kindergarten and feeling nervous... -
08 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Painting by the Numbers
It’s about the process, not the outcome. Painting by the numbers, regardless of how carefully, isn’t the same as painting our own picture—and learning to paint on our own, I... -
Doubting Thomas & Me
“Faith is like a little seed. If planted it will grow,” sing the Primary children. The Book of Alma extends the metaphor of faith as a seed beautifully. While I’m... -
Pauli’s (Train) Ride to the Rocky Mountains
Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Pauli from Highlandlake/Mead, Colorado. I haven’t attend formal church services now for over 10 years. Instead, I find my spiritual connections... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I am here one day, and on the next, I am gone. Yet I am part of a community, a society, and a species, that will continue after I am... -
“The 2011 OB Drink Give-away”
I’ve spent almost all my 38 years in Texas or Louisiana, so I’ve weathered some bad summers. The summer of 2011, however, has re-defined “bad summer.” In our area, the... -
Saving Her Pennies
When my kids were younger, I naively fantasized about how great it would be once they got out of daycare and into school. We’d suddenly have so much more disposable... -
When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat
When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat explores what makes a home or a family – the family goes through many incarnations –and how it can be difficult to find a... -
Place and Grace
My fondest childhood memories are on a boat. Nearly every summer time was spent at a lake or reservoir swimming, skiing or just driving around. The feeling of warm air... -
Stephanie’s Walk to “Church”
Today’s “Ride to Church” comes to us from Stephanie Durden Edwards of Missouri. Stephanie writes: My Sundays used to look and feel a whole lot different than they do... -
07 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Spiritual Pinball
These strategies are how we self-soothe, in a spiritual sense. They are the pinball bumpers of Mormonism—bumpers that will keep the ball in play for a lifetime, or as... -
The Rabbit Hole
Today’s guest post was written by Amanda Mixon, a graduate student of English at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. This is where John Cameron Mitchell’s (director) Rabbit Hole... -
Window to Utopia
What would heaven be like, for a teenager? -
Around the Dinner Table: Do What You Are
[This is kind of cheating because it didn't actually occur around the dinner table. It occurred in our mini-van, but it was dinner table-esque.] We spent 6 hours last... -
Husband and Wife Book Club: The Road
Read The Road only if you can handle the bittersweetness of life. Read The Road only if you can bear to carry the torch. -
Fast (?) Sunday
It is the first Sunday of the month. In many Mormon families that means one thing: no breakfast! Well, that’s a bit of an oversimplification, I’ll admit, but fasting (for... -
Ride to Church + in Snake River, Idaho
Today’s post comes to us from Sean whose personal blog can be found here: www.inlimine.blogspot.com To fully enjoy Sean’s ride, you have to read the text (below the slideshow) while... -
06 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: The Real Story
We learn the mental gymnastics of religious apologetics like Hispanics learn soccer. -
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life begins with a quotation from The Book of Job: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth . . . What supports its... -
The Nursery Window
“Long ago,” he said, “I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and... -
My Little Red Book
I recently re-read a book called My Little Red Book—a compilation of first period stories written by women from all over the world. I read it for the first time... -
Mormon Matters 45: The Mormon Practice of Bearing Testimony
As a result of Brent’s latest Mormon in the Cheap Seats posts (Build Out, Not Up and On Testimonies), Mormon Matters just did a podcast regarding Mormons and the practice... -
The Husband and Wife Summer Book Club
I’ve written in the past about how different our literary taste tends to be. We are reliable (and not always complimentary) opposites. -
Like a Virgin
“10% of yoga is the outfit, 10% are the poses” the teacher joked at the beginning of class, then followed up more seriously with “80% is just showing up.” She...
