Nostalgia Life Is Good It's short day at school—Friday. The bell just rang and you are heading home at 1:45 PM. It's springtime and you're carrying the Bright Neon Green jacket your
Duncan Teeth Cleaning We were told some time ago that you really should get your dog's teeth cleaned. This was a part of a lecture that included advice that I'm 100% positive no
Skylar The Holy First Church of Saint Peloton I learned about Peloton a couple years ago, probably from Meg. She told me at that time that the most supportive friend in her life was an exceptionally gay Peloton
Jude A True Democracy One of the plus sides to living in These Unprecedented Times is many of my friends realized all at once that they could actually just go ahead and get really
Ridiculous Just In Case Cookies A few weeks ago @gimmeplants on Twitter posted a picture of an absolute abomination called "Just In Case Cookies." We talked about it on Strangerville last week. If you haven't
Medical School Things Are Looking Up Skylar no longer has time for basic news. If I'm being honest, I'm jealous of the result, but not of the means and methods to get to that result. Medical
Meg Help me I'm poor. A couple of quick things: First, your comments on the Shannon recap are giving me life. Also, SOMEONE IN THE COMMENTS LITERALLY FOUND HER GRANDMOTHER IN THE FILM. Stranger is
Essays Shannon: A Recap Of A 1961 BYU Film About A Very Naughty Girl When I saw there was a BYU film from 1961 called “Shannon” I pulled the trigger and that’s how we ended up here. I have not seen this. I
Skylar If We Ever Do Meet Again It Will Be Zion To Me We decided to take the weekend off and drive down to Zion National Park. This was a risky thing to do, we admit, considering our last few attempts to visit
Medical School An Impossible Way To Live My husband, who art in heaven, hallowed be his name, decided to become an absolute terrorist two nights ago. Look. He's stressed and exhausted and exhausted and stressed and I
Ridiculous Dishes "Did you have company in here today?" Skylar was asking it sarcastically, and I knew that was the case, so I guess that's why I responded "just my handful of
Ridiculous Companionship Inventory When Skylar and I got married my mother—the woman who birthed me into this world—the being from whom my body emerged through a process she has since called
Skylar Happy Birthday, SkyMan Today is Skylar's birthday. I spend a lot of time on the internet gushing about him or sharing with you the absurd things he does, like drink Pepto Bismol as
Skylar Treehouse in the Mountain Skylar is turning 31 thousand, or so you'd think the way he complained about his aching "dainty ankles" today when we went snowshoeing for a few hours in some mountains
Life The Year Of I explain this every year but some of you are forgetful and some of you are new and I love the sound of my own voice, so I'm going to
Social Distancing 2020 It was June. I went for a run around my city. This was a Saturday and it had been a very hard week in the exact middle of a very
Review The Most Viewed Posts of 2020 It's time for one of my favorite annual walks down memory lane. Below I've corralled a ranked 10 posts from this very ridiculous website. These are the pieces you most
Ollie We Are Very Angry With Matt Matt has decided to move away from us, which is absolutely a hate crime and an act of terror. He sprung the news on us a few months ago. "I'm
Ridiculous Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie, Part 3 First off, I wrote a piece about what it feels like to close the chapter on 2020. It was incredibly cathartic to write this, in a way I hadn't really
Essays A New Kind Of Peace I was just about to leave work for the day when my husband called me. “Class has been canceled. They’re sending everyone home,” he said. Skylar was deep into
Essays 2020 Vision Recently I saw a billboard that said, “It’s time to see with 2020 vision.” I laughed a laugh that has become all too familiar this year, a laugh I
Ridiculous Hedgy A couple years ago my friend Anna got Duncan a little stuffed animal hedgehog. She called it "Hedgy" and this quickly became Duncan's very favorite toy. My little man was
Ridiculous I am married to a deeply weird person. Just a few days ago Skylar and I decorated gingerbread cookies. With sweat at my brow, I mixed and rolled the dough and then I carefully baked them with love.
Essays Godmothers of Country Music My junior year of high school I took AP Language and Composition, a sort of writing and rhetoric course. Unlike any other of my classes, it was transformative in that
