Best Show on Earth
One of my favorite pastimes since moving back to Utah is watching the news on the local NBC affiliate which is owned by the Mormon Church. The majority of Salt Lake City is owned by the Mormon Church, including two malls downtown, a conservative radio station which is nothing but fair and balanced if not [...]
Another reason to be proud of public education
Tonight Jon indulged me and instead of having to throw yet another frozen Costco dinner into the oven we drove to Noodles and Co. to secure an edible meal. When people ask me if I cook I say, yes, I do, but someone else does all the prep work for me. I wanted to order [...]
Mother, if you’re reading this, the part about the four women, it’s not true
A couple weeks ago a girl named Nikki sent me and email asking if she and her friend Ryan could interview me for an article for the school newspaper at the University of Utah. Before I even asked her what it was going to be about I said, “YES!” because, you see, the University of [...]
And the house on the sand went SPLAT!
On the way home from my mother’s house last night (no limp dick windshield wiper this time!) Jon and I passed an open field that we used to drive the truck in. It sits at the foot of what’s called “point of the mountain,” the hill that separates Salt Lake County from Utah County, otherwise [...]
Holy shit, it’s snowing
This morning it started to snow heavily and as I was lurching in slow motion toward the window saying, OH. MY. GOD. the power went out. Like, the lights turned off and the heat shut off and worst of all THE TELEVISION STOPPED WORKING. I immediately called Beth on the old phone in the basement [...]
Holy Sabbath Day of Prayer
The Mormon Church holds a sort of general assembly type meeting twice a year, a meeting called General Conference where the leaders of the Church give talks about the same stuff you have to hear about over and over again in Sunday School every Sunday, stuff like: 1. The importance of being faithful 2. The [...]
35 Weeks, Photo Collection: White Out
The morning after Christmas Jon and I woke to over a foot of snow on the ground and to a house with a temperature hovering at about 52 degrees. Salt Lake City was in the beginning stages of a snow dump that would last almost two straight days and leave nearly 90,000 people without power. [...]
29 Weeks, Photo Collection: Autumn in Utah
All of the following photos were taken by myself and my dark-haired, deliciously long-eyelashed husband whose sparkly eyes I really hope our baby inherits. If not his sparkly eyes, then at least his ability to make me laugh at 7:35am in the coffee aisle at the grocery store as he properly demonstrates how to operate [...]
17 Weeks, Photo Collection: Utah’s Hogle Zoo
This week’s photo collection comes to you a tad bit late, only because I have a full time job as a Pregnant Woman, and the hours are killing me. Last Friday morning I accompanied three of my lovely neighbors and their children to Utah’s Hogle Zoo. When I told my husband what I was doing, [...]
