Essays Utah's Reality TV Pioneers The hot young people hardly older than us were a televised testament that we too could be trusted to navigate complicated adulthood.
Ridiculous Brownies From Scratch I have severe writer's block right now. I just finished a new article for The Beehive that will be published this week, so I think I may have
Ridiculous The People of Lagoon As you know since you are all experts on my life, I have gotten a Lagoon season pass every year since 2013. Why do I do this? I don'
knitting I Made A Sweater A couple months ago I decided to knit a sweater. I had been avoiding this for a while because every time I looked at a sweater pattern it was like
Essays The Girl Who Got Me Pregnant Rebbie told this story at a Strangerville Live event hosted by The Beehive in 2019. This is a written version of her story. Infertility sucks. It sucks when you really
Ollie What are you watching? We're all binging TV shows and movies right now and that's ok. If there is anyone in your life telling you that is not ok, you
Grandma Sweet Tea and Facebook Live Momma's got a few things for you today. First, I found the two worst movies of all time. I'm serious. We can stop searching now. These
Essays Word of Wisdom: Cinematic Masterpieces from the 80s Recently I stumbled upon two early 80s films about the Word of Wisdom I somehow missed during my childhood, and if I now have to know they exist, so do you.
Social Distancing Obvious, Even I just came across a picture in my phone from 2015. It's the first picture I ever took with Skylar. We had met in person for the first
Duncan This Supposed End of the World On Friday night Skylar started having a meltdown. To give you some perspective, his meltdowns don't look like mine. Mine are like the Chernobyl disaster. His are more
Ridiculous Does This Count As Pictures & Distractions Who's In Charge Here? I was going to do Pictures & Distractions but then I got distracted (ha!) and started word vomiting. I guess the below does include some pictures and links, so maybe
Essays Earthquake Drill In 1993, Jordan Ridge Elementary School revamped its earthquake training efforts.
Essays Baking For The End Of The World An hour after my house stopped shaking, I turned on The Great British Baking Show. I couldn’t not. I felt a little embarrassed because let’s be honest, this
Social Distancing The Role We'll Play Last week Meg told me about an app called "My Talking Pet" which allows you to upload a photo of your pet and then speak into your phone
Ridiculous Earthquake Yesterday we were woken up by an earthquake, which, in case you've never experienced this, is a super crazy way to start your day. It happened at some
Ridiculous More Social Distancing Skylar read some advice on the internet for couples who are now stuck at home together all day. It said to come up with an imaginary coworker and blame everything
Ridiculous Social Distancing We're social distancing at our house right now. It started around Thursday, kind of in phases. I went to my office in the morning, Skylar went to school.
BYU The BYU Honor Code Hi, Strangers. We're self-quarantining at my house since the whole world is exploding. Bob and Cathie called me yesterday to tell me church was canceled. They sounded so alive. Then they read multiple memes about the Coronavirus they had found on Facebook
Essays The BYU Honor Code At this point I hadn’t told anyone I was gay, and I certainly wasn’t tempted to consider it at BYU.
Ridiculous Twilight: A Comprehensive Review A couple weeks ago I finally sat myself down and watched me a Twilight and friends, I am so confused. I did it so we could record this episode of
Ridiculous Girl Scout Yesterday I tweeted this thing that has gone viral [https://twitter.com/EliMcCann/status/1236415762094411776]. I don't understand how Twitter works but I think this means I'
Ridiculous Please turn in your keys, you're fired. We're swamped with last-minute show panics since Strangerville Live is in about 24-ish hours from the time I'm writing these words, so I'm not
Essays Diet Coke at the End of the World A woman in her early thirties looks around sweatily at the other Costco carts. She’s dressed like she just got back from the gym. (She did not. She’s
Ridiculous Coronapox [Strangerville Live is on Friday! Get your tickets! It shall be a good time! Click HERE [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strangerville-live-tickets-93454584177] .] Eli: Did you hear we have to start
Ridiculous Sugar Daddy [You guys. Strangerville Live is this Friday, March 6, at 8:00 in Salt Lake City. Get tickets now or else I'll turn this internet around. You can
