Ridiculous Wedding Planning Part II I'm caught in the the nine circles of Hell right now. This is because I'm suddenly required on a much more frequent basis than I signed
Ridiculous Vegetarian Dinner "I'm making a healthy dinner tonight, so don't eat." Skylar said it almost like a threat yesterday afternoon. I've tended to try
Book Fear of Failure Years ago, when I was living in Palau, I decided to try to write a book. It was a good time to make a first attempt because there are, let&
Ridiculous The Magic of Throwing Crap Away We made the mistake most of you have made when pressing play on an episode of Hoarders last night while making dinner. We were at Matt's house. Skylar
Duncan The Year Of As you know, because you all did your 10.5 years of assigned reading on Stranger, every January I pick a new theme for myself. I do this rather than
Gay 2018 I sit at my desk at home on this snowy Sunday in Salt Lake City. Two dogs are wrestling at my feet, occasionally humping one another even though both are
Meg The Top Ten Most Viewed Stranger Posts of 2018 It's time for one of my favorite Stranger traditions! MAKING A LIST OF ALL OF THE THINGS YOU LOVE ABOUT ME. But for real. 2018 has been an
Ridiculous Wedding Planning I had been dreading the prospect of planning a wedding for a while when I asked Skylar to go to hell with me (which is how I refer to getting
Ollie Food Poisoning Matt said he had food poisoning on Saturday, which was annoying because he was supposed to go to a party with me. Skylar was out of town, presumably because he
Gay Skylar Last week I got engayged. That's the same as getting "engaged," except cuter. Skylar made it clear to me a while back that if he was
Skylar The 12 Days of Christmas A present suddenly showed up on our front porch on December 1. We opened it, and soon realized that someone was doing the 12 Days of Christmas for us. Gifts
Ridiculous Some Really Bad Music Meg's full-time job is as a writer for thebeehive.com [http://thebeehive.com/]. Well, that and mob boss. And serial killer. And thermal underwear model. If you can
Essays Utah's Great Songwriters The last time I was part of a Mormon congregation’s choir was in 2007. It was a young adult ward and the choir was led by an iconically sarcastic chorister, who is now in the Tabernacle Choir.
Ridiculous Thing of the Day Eli: We can't leave the house until we go through the pile of sheets in that closet and get rid of any we haven't used in
Ridiculous Track Workout I've been going through this phase for the past couple of years called "getting fat and aging" and apart from all of the fun parts, like
EMBARRASSING Towels I thought that I was probably done having embarrassing things happen in a locker room. I know. I was delusional. But really. Surely I've met my quota by now. Surely it's someone else's turn to humiliate himself while
Ridiculous Brothers? Skylar and I traveled to visit his family in Portland for Thanksgiving. Matt came with us because he is our child and we are proud of the boy he is
Ollie Thanksmas Look. I know. I KNOW. Putting up Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving is a sin that is only eclipsed by murder in severity. I know that. You guys. I helped vote
Ridiculous O.J. Simpson This week, I have a story from when I was 11 years old. I can't believe I waited this long to tell it to you. You can hear
Essays The Weight Of Being Empty It had never occurred to me I would struggle to get pregnant, because I’d already struggled to want to try. Sure I wanted a family in some faraway future,
Ridiculous Pitcher Make sure to check out Jolyn's new story on Strangerville, if you haven't yet! *****I was riding on the Subway when I heard something that hurt
Corey Mock Depositions I got to New York City a few days ago because my law firm decided that I should go to this training class. I decided not to be offended by
Ridiculous REST I noticed this tender bump on the back of my head sometime last week so obviously that meant that I was dying. Meg says she's a hypochondriac. She claims to have mastered this. Meg Walter is an amateur. I once saw a
Ridiculous A Murderer in our Midsts I think Duncan might have serial killer tendencies. He hasn't attempted to murder me or Skylar, to our knowledge. This is good, because I place my life in
Movie Review 10 Movies I Could Never Get Sick of Watching I'm not saying these are the best films of all-time. There are many movies that I think are much greater than these, but that I could only watch
