Skylar This New Step of Covid When The Great Covid began earlier this year I was one of those people who was constantly telling you that actually we really had a lot to learn from this
Essays Happily Married and Mad About BYU Dating This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. I’ve been thinking a lot about BYU dating lately, which is strange given a) I am a decade removed
Law When did we get old? I started teaching a class at the law school down the street from my house last fall. It's a First Amendment class. We read a bunch of cases
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions We are so very overdue for a Pictures & Distractions post and I have some fun stuff to share with you. So here it is. [https://1.bp.blogspot.com/
Essays Boy Scouts of America: A Quest for the Eagles' Nest Just before my 8th birthday I was shoved into the neighbor lady’s house down at the end of the street for my first Cub Scout meeting. My friends were there, all boys around my age in half-tucked-in dark blue buttoned-up shirts adorned with patches that looked like sloppily-sewn postage stamps.
Ridiculous Famine The first time I visited Skylar's family in Portland I thought maybe the Pacific Northwest was experiencing a famine that hadn't made the news in Utah.
Ridiculous Gal Gadot When I bought my house in 2014 the inspector guy showed up and kicked the tires and then told me the place was unlikely to collapse but that my A/C unit was from The Year of Our Lord 1776. It was actually used
Essays About Babies and Bad Timing When my husband and I got married he was undocumented. Our honeymoon was spent driving cross-country from our wedding in Nashville back to Utah because he couldn’t fly. We
Medical School Skylar's World Skylar has moved onto his second rotation now, family medicine. As I understand it, that's the same as regular medicine except it sometimes posts racist things on Facebook
Essays Meghart As I examined the portrait of my murder I reflected on my life choices and tried to pinpoint the exact moment when things started to turn. It must have been,
Dating Second Date Last week I tweeted this thing that went viral: > For my second date with my husband we met in NYC and went to a party and ended up at
Ridiculous The Friends We Made Along The Way We want to be the kind of people who go camping, but we don't actually want to go camping. That's the only way I can describe
Essays Hot Girls I want to talk to you about my struggles with hot girls. I’m not talking about girls like you and me. Most of us can pull something together with
Ridiculous My Mother's Pickle Canning Recipe None Of You Asked For, Which Was Rude I'm basically Martha Stewart now, except I've been to less prison and I look better in skirts. I thought I might as well fully lean in
Bob and Cathie Out of Gas We drove to a little farm yesterday morning to buy crap to put in jars and leave on our shelves to rot. Canning truly is one of my favorite annual
Ridiculous My Mother's Spaghetti Canning Recipe No One Asked For, Which Was Rude My most vivid memory from my entire childhood is stuffing my face into a giant green pillow in the basement during canning season as the house would fill with overpowering
Essays Love Is For The Byrds: A BYU Film Recap No One Asked For This video comes with a written warning, and it’s also narrated by a stern man’s voice. I have read this thing like 40 times and I still don’t understand what the hell it’s trying to say.
Essays How Do I Love Thee: A Very Unnecessary Recap Of A BYU Film From 1965 Today, I bring you a BYU film from 1965, How Do I Love Thee?
Social Distancing Ghost Town Hunting We were supposed to go on an adventure last weekend, but our plans were abruptly canceled when Skylar plugged in all eleventy hundred of his nuclear devices at once and
Ridiculous Eternal Vine My parents have this Jumanji vine consuming a whole side of their house. They planted it back before the war when they were young and dumb and so full of
Ridiculous Excuse MY Christmas! Since 2011, I've been receiving emails from all of you on all sorts of topics and for all sorts of reasons. Some of the emails contain photos of
Essays Something Sweaty About Summer, Discontent, and Knee-Length Shorts This piece was originally published by The Beehive [thebeehive.com]. I saw a stupid clickbaity article the other day, “The Race for the Song of the Summer 2020!” Can you
Medical School Rotations Skylar started his "rotations" this week, which as I understand it roughly translates to "wander around a hospital trying to look busy so no one asks you
Ridiculous Exhausted Broccolini On Wednesday I had one of those days where everything just a little bit sucked more than usual. I don't remember how it started. Technical difficulties. Ants in
Church Mormon Phrases When Skylar moved to Utah in 2016, he basically had to take a Utah-immersion course just to understand basic life. He'd occasionally wander into the house and say
