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
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 and turn Stranger into
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
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
Emily Photos of People Having an Authentic Time at my Wedding I'm going to give you a bunch of details about the wedding with some actual wedding photos, etc. in the coming days. But for now, I want to leave you
Emily In 1968 This time in Strangerville, Salt Lake City will give you a giant flag to help you cross the street. And then a story about fixing up an old bicycle (written
Ridiculous Cable For a while I've been the last person in America paying for cable. This is fitting, since I was the last person in America to start paying for cable as
Church To Be Seen I kept myself busy throughout my life as a coping mechanism. If I was too busy to stop and think, I would be too busy to be afraid. If I
Ridiculous REAMS. Eventually I moved away from my parents' home. I grew up and changed. My parents changed. You changed. Everyone changed. Except for REAMS. REAMS stayed exactly the same.
The Siblings It's Raining Men I say that I’m not a cruise person. That doesn’t mean I didn’t have a good time last week with all 6,000 members of my family
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions You guys--people are mad right now and I can't hold them off any longer. All of a sudden in the last couple of weeks I've had multiple Strangers out of
Grandma Farm House I know this is the last thing I need in my life right now, but you guys. On Sunday Bob and Cathie drove me and Skylar and my sister Krishelle
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions It's been raining in Salt Lake for eleventy days and #We'reThankfulForTheMoisture but the problem is I now have a mushroom garden in my entire lawn and it's stressing me out
Ironman Half Ironman, 2019 The worst part of doing a half or full Ironman, besides the swimming, biking, and running, is the whole week leading up to the race. You're supposed to go to
Ironman Half Ironmans are a Mistake The St. George half Ironman is somehow only one month away, which means that you people are about to commit your annual felony of failing to stop me from doing
Ollie We have Photoshop so now we're ALL going to college. Because I STILL cannot stop reading and talking about the college admissions scam stuff, I tweeted the other day Could someone out there help photoshop my face onto a water
Bob and Cathie A Good Year for the Reservoirs When I was a kid my grandpa lived in southern California and he was obsessed with the Weather Channel. He always seem to be acutely aware of the likelihood of
Ridiculous Confessions (Woot. Strangerville Live is next week. Get your tickets if you haven't already. Support Jolyn. She supports you.) When I was 14, my older sister Krisanda offered to drive me
Ridiculous I made cookies to prove to you that I'm not incompetent. Look, I know you people think I'm incompetent. In the kitchen. Shame on all of you who started nodding your heads after the first sentence and before I could qualify
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
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 bug bite
Ridiculous Me When I Was Bad This is my niece, Kate. Adorable, right? Doesn't she just look like someone you would trust with your life? So sweet and sincere. Be ye not fooled. When Skylar and
Emily Halee From High School We borrowed a stage for Strangerville Live after Meg didn't "want to be murdered" by my attempt to build one. Under no circumstances was she willing to stand on something
Strangerville Live A Locked Car A homeless woman got my attention as I was walking to my car. She was blonde and looked a little rough around the edges, but simultaneously kind. She pointed at the car parked in the middle of the street--something very fancy-shmancy, silver, and sleek--and