Mexico, part three
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Raving lunatic
When someone comes to my website, reads a single paragraph and walks away shaking his head and mumbling what a raving lunatic, I consider it a job well done. Today was a good day at work!
Bootylicious Since 1742
The other day I was in spin class getting my butt kicked when the riff from the Stevie Nicks song “Edge of Seventeen” started playing on the instructor’s playlist. And I was like, AWWWWW YEAH, MY BODY’S TOO BOOTYLICIOUS FOR YA BABE! Except, it wasn’t Destiny’s Child. It was the actual Stevie Nicks song, and [...]
Milestone: pigtails!
Most days she looks like a miniature Donald Trump or maybe Matthew McConaughey after a particularly bad bender, but her hair is finally long enough that we can put it in pigtails. This is a lot more fun than it is cool to admit, but I see her with her hair like this and I [...]
The beginning of a smile
This guy nodded fiercely when I held up my camera and motioned that I’d like to take his photo. But when I raised my camera to my face he immediately got coy. I like that you can see the tiniest beginning of a smile behind his fingers, yet his eyes are so serious. It says [...]
The Study
There is a program in the LDS religion known as “home teaching” (for men) and “visiting teaching” (for women). Basically you and a companion are assigned families to visit or check up on once a month. It keeps the community strong, enables everyone to help everyone else, and is an absolute pain in the ass. [...]
Yes, this is a post about Radiohead, you cannot possibly be surprised
Last Friday Radiohead released a new album called The King of Limbs. And oh, I know, you think Radiohead is overrated, what’s the big deal, blahblahblah. So is sex with monkeys. But I’m not going to judge anyone’s hobbies. INDULGE ME FOR A SECOND. Because they happen to mean a great deal to me, and [...]
