Things I’ll Never Understand: Semiautomatic Madness
January 6th, 2009
Things I'll Never Understand
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Will someone please explain to me why any civilian would want or need an AK-47? Read more »
You’ll notice. Oh yes, you’ll notice.
January 4th, 2009
Mamarama, Rants
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If I hear it one more time I might scream, or laugh hysterically in the face of a well-meaning friend. Neither of which would be good.
“It” is this: Once you have three children, you can have more and not really even notice.
Read more about “it” at Blog Segullah.
Om nom nom
January 3rd, 2009
Rants
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In a recent ABC article, mother of three Robyn Paul has some good things to say about breastfeeding children beyond infancy. Read more »
From the Archives: A River in a Time of Dryness
January 2nd, 2009
From the archives, The King and I
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Originally posted January 12, 2006. Resurfacing to honor The King for his extraordinary support this past month, which was spent editing fourscore essays in a crazed manner amidst our biggest shared crisis to date.
I used to think that one of the downsides to being in a stable marriage is knowing you’ll never fall in love again. I mean, really, passionately in love. When your every cell is supercharged with life, and the whole earth feels renewed with promise. Read more »
Rock Lobster
January 1st, 2009
Mormon Me, Ramblings
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Last night around 9 pm I drove my eldest to her friend’s house, where she would borrow a dress to wear to the multi-stake New Year’s Eve dance (of course, nothing she owned was worthy).
Ah, church dances. The blaring tacky music, the duded-up kids shaking their stuff under the basketball hoops, the chaperones with pained expressions caused by the former and the latter. As I dropped off my daughter and headed home, I cranked up my stereo and reminisced. Read more »
Hairy Questions
December 31st, 2008
Ramblings
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So it’s New Year’s Eve, and the only resolution I’m considering concerns my hair. What to do with it?
Current status: shoulder-length, medium brown with some leftover red. The red is the most current in a long line of hair experiments, stretching back to eighth grade, when I got my first (and last) perm. Oh yes, there’s a rich tradition to be recounted here. Ninth grade marked my first hipster haircut, consisting of very short back and sides and long, curly bangs. This was 1985, after all. Then came the little lines shaved in the sides (way before football players started doing it, might I add). Then the coloring began: black, burgundy, various shades of red, all topped (literally) by the white-blond crew cut my senior year. I loved every installment of the hair drama. I got to reinvent myself whenever I felt like it (often). I got to be all different shades of hot. Read more »
The Queen returns
December 28th, 2008
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I know, I missed you too. But what can I say? The crush of 2008 left no room for personal blogging. Take a peek at the year in review and see for yourself.
January: After a hundred hours of preparation, literary agent launches memoir proposal (including first quarter of the manuscript) into the shark-infested waters of the national trade. Queen immediately takes up permanent residence in front of her inbox, awaiting the any-minute-now email which will catapult her into sickening fame and fortune. Read more »
Thomas speaks, 2008
December 25th, 2008
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Fans and friends,
Blink your eyes, and it’s gone—that’s what I keep telling Mom. It’s been three years (THREE!) since I swallowed my dignified sensibilities and posed in a preemie-size reindeer suit for your holiday pleasure. Those of you who failed to provide adequate compensation stand in peril of karmic bankruptcy. But because I possess a generous nature, I’m here to offer you a second chance: Read more »
The Kingdom Speaks