Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions All y'all, Strangerville Live is NEXT WEEK. It's in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 6 at 8:00 PM. There will be snacks. We are
Essays Is Technology Really All That Bad? As of the date you are reading this, there are over 19,000 articles on major websites across the internet that start with the line, “Today we are more connected than ever, but people feel more disconnected than at any other time.”
FYI 5-Step Moisturizing Regimen My moisturizing journey and skin care habits have been wrought with mistakes and youthful ignorance. I visited a tanning bed or two in my early 20s. "I just want
Pictures from my phone Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions The other day I wrote to you about Skylar's proclivity to misplace things [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2020/02/wedding-ring.html] and how he wanted praise for going
Ridiculous Wedding Ring My husband has decided he should "get credit" for "not losing" his wedding ring. He told me this the other night like he had saved a
Ridiculous Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie, Part 2 (Hey--we announced Strangerville Live the other day. March 6 in Salt Lake City. Come, please. Get tickets HERE [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strangerville-live-tickets-93454584177].) The Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie
Essays So Online Dating Wasn't Just For Weirdos? “She met him through the internet,” I heard a woman whisper in the tone of scandal. This was 1999 and I was fifteen. The woman was a family friend, and she was gossiping about a mutual acquaintance who recently found love.
Ridiculous Something weird be happening on the Internet. Two things: First of all, we've announced our next Strangerville Live! Come join us in Salt Lake City on March 6 at 8:00 PM. I'm
Ridiculous Heated Blankets There are heated blankets and heating pads plugged into nearly every outlet in my house. The gas fireplace is constantly running. Sometimes I come home to find Skylar standing over
knitting I Must Have Praise. Ok so this is going to be awkward but a couple months ago one of us, and I don't want to name any names here, wrote a pretttttty
Church Forever? A few years ago I started having ongoing debates with a friend about whether the existence of an afterlife is scarier or less scary than there being no afterlife. She
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Two days ago I got on a flight and I was seated next to a middle aged man who AND I'M NOT JUDGING seemed a little cranky. I&
Essays The Titanic Problem My father issued the decision in the tone of a president contemplating war. My mother nodded slightly as he spoke, her lips pursed, her hands resting dignified on her lap.
Ridiculous And the Award Goes To A few years ago Skylar and I started this thing where we try to see all of the Academy Award best picture nominees before the Oscars. Then we fill out
Ridiculous Foot Disease First of all, I wrote an article this week about how we all grew up in Utah spreading rumors that every celebrity was Mormon [https://www.thebeehive.com/did-you-hear-steve-martin-is-mormon/]. You
Essays Did You Hear Steve Martin Is Mormon? It started right after the first Father of the Bride movie came out, a film that, if turned into a lightbulb, would most definitely be called “Hue White.”
Skylar Children One thing they don't tell you when you choose to be gay is that family planning is going to be complicated. No one told me that. When they
Ridiculous Airports The most stressful place in the entire world is the inside of every airport. I just looked it up. There are 40,000 airports on Earth. That means there is
Palau The Only Footprints I Shall Leave I walked out onto the beach. It was sunny, already pretty warm even though it was only 9:30 AM. There aren't waves in the water in Palau.
Skylar The Year Of We flew into Salt Lake City a few hours ago and I'm trying desperately not to fall asleep until at least 9:00 PM. I don't
Ridiculous Cookie Present I booked a tour with a Japanese company several weeks ago to go see Kayangel, which is the northernmost island in Palau. I had never been, but heard it'
Church Worlds Collide Palau is so much more beautiful than I remembered. I knew it was breathtaking. At least, that's how I described it when people asked. But coming back here
Palau The Land of Coconuts Alii, from the land of coconuts. It feels weird to be able to say that again. It's still hot in Palau. Still humid enough that walking feels more
Palau He'll Love Palau A high energy version of "Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland" is blasting through a not-so-bad sound system embedded in the airport ceiling. It's New Year&
Life 2019 Every year when I write my year-end post I try to think about what made the last twelve months "good." There certainly have been years in which that
