As I wait for my mission call, anxieties and excitement fill my brain and make my heart pound. I think of the moment I will open that envelope, and my heart leaps into my throat and I feel the pulse of the beat in my ears ( Read more... )

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I’ve got something on the lighter side this time, folks. Just for a change.

Last night, my brother and I were on the phone and he asked if I remembered someone from high school. I was unsure, so I went in search of my yearbook. Sadly, my yearbooks have been… misplaced. Happily, I came across my journal from 1997-1999, so my journal from when I was ( Read more... )

This election cycle has been a tough one for me. See, I am a Mormon, a member of  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, like Republican candidate for President Mitt Romney. I am also a registered Democrat, like President Barack Obama.

On the one hand, I couldn’t lose: If Romney won, then it would give people a chance to see me and my ( Read more... )

If you know nothing about me, there is one thing you should know: I love crime procedural dramas. Law & Order? Check. CSI? Check. Castle? Check. Even old-school Perry Mason makes the list. I haven't met a crime procedural I didn't like. (Wait. I take that back: I haaaate Criminal Minds with a passion.) But one of my favorites happens to be Law & ( Read more... )

I went to my boss’s office this afternoon to drop off some papers for him to review. As I did so, he said something, then immediately backtracked, saying, “That’s probably not correct grammar, so I apologize!”

I get that fairly often-the fear that because I used to be an English teacher, I must be ultra-obsessed with grammar and ready to drop the ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure most people know why, but I feel like enlightening people anyhow.

I love the Olympics, and that love is wide and varied. The reasons I love them are equally varied: The brief worldwide competition, the idea that people kind of forget what separates them and just glories in what we have in common, the pure hard work athletes put into ( Read more... )

Have I ever told you the story of the Jewish Buddhist? I swear I have written about this before, but I couldn't find it here. I have a post with that name (in a hidden reference to... myself?) but it isn't about my actual Jewish Buddhist, and it doesn't actually make sense unless I've told the story of my little Jewish Buddhist.

Many moons ago, back ( Read more... )

My sister Jeanette chastised me for not writing here about my trip to visit the Mays in Virginia, specifically Lilia. Then I retorted with, "Well, you just had a baby and you haven't written about it," but then she was like, "Yeah, but that happened, like, yesterday," to which I responded, "Touche."

So allow me to tell you a bit about Virginia.

Lilia ( Read more... )

So, I'm still babysitting my friend's kids, and it turns out her oldest, at five years old, is a total hypochondriac. In the course of the last three days he has:

1. Worried that dirt is a skin disease
2. Feared that a sliver would infect his finger
3. Asked if his nose was bleeding (in his defense, he is susceptible to those)
4. Asked if there was a bump on his ( Read more... )