A place for friends.
The holidays are a difficult time for me.  Most of my adult holidays have been spent alone or as the awkward guest in another family’s family-time. Even as a child it was difficult. I was the step-kid and often treated as a guest at my mother’s husband’s family get together…Oy! How the holidays sucked. (more…)

Open Thread for Thanksgiving Prep
Natalie K’s great suggestion: Here’s a place we can share our favorite Thanksgiving tips, help each other out with questions and answers, keep each other company as we wait for the turkey to thaw, and commiserate with each other when the pie burns. To get things started: Here’s the best turkey recipe in the world And here’s my seriously fantastic cranberry sauce. Any questions to ask the hive mind? What are you working o

Mind The Gap: November VT Message
This month’s visiting teaching message may be based on any of the October General Conference talks.  I chose President Barbara Thompson’s talk, “Mind the Gap”. (more…)

Oh Shut up already.
Last night I was talking to my brother and somehow the subject of church history came up. I am by no means any kind of expert on church history. But I do know about a thousand times more now than I did when I started this blog five years ago. Despite having been a graduate of seminary, I admit that I could not have told you for sure if Joseph Smith had practiced poligamy or not. It’s not really something we talk about. So anyway, I mentioned to him that I had a hard time a couple weeks ago during the RS lesson about Joseph Smith, not at all sure what what was appropriate to say in that context. The lesson was entirely glowy (of course), no, glowy doesn’t even cove

A Mormon (Feminist!) Image: Graduation Day
  This is a picture of my husband and I on the day of our graduation with our undergraduate degrees. This week is our eighth wedding anniversary, and during the last eight years we’ve managed to earn five degrees between the two of us. Like many other young Mormons we met at BYU (after serving in the same mission), dated for a few months, and got married over Thanksgiving break while we were still undergrads. We had the