Daniel The Top Ten Most Viewed Stranger Posts, 2014 Every time I get on Facebook right now there are a thousand posts that are like "check out Amy's year!" and then you can click on it and scroll through a thousand pictures to see what Amy ate in 2014.
Ridiculous Halloween, 1995 I should be 100% way too embarrassed to share this photo with you. But I just can't help it. It is too horrifically glorious to keep it all
Nostalgia November Regrets We're in that really weird time of year right now where the days are short and the dark nights feel disorientingly long. I never can quite get used to the time at which it gets dark in Salt Lake City. Night after
Ridiculous Hospital Bokhdan Happy Monday one and all. We had a great time at The Porch this weekend. It was great to see some of you there. A huge thanks to Kyle for
Ridiculous Scary Movies This weekend I went to my friend Burke's house and we had nothing to do so obviously we turned to destructive behavior. Like DRUGS AND VANDALISM! Not that
Ridiculous The Lost Journal Series, Part X It just seemed like it was time for another edition of The Lost Journal Series. Video and text below: January 12, 1995 (10 years old): I found out resently that my bird can lay EGGS. I found an egg in his birdcage and I
Ironman Ironman Lake Tahoe, 2014 We made our trek west bright and early Friday morning for the Lake Tahoe Ironman. A couple of months ago I asked Nic if he would be willing to come along as my support staff for the race, and he graciously agreed. This stuff
Nostalgia A Year Later The date sort of crept up on me. It seems odd, but it's true, that I left Palau, the Land of Coconuts, one year ago. Gosh I'
Nostalgia The Flight of the Black Hoody Last night I was in my office until 1:00 in the morning. I'm not a workaholic. Not trying to convince anyone that this is something that happens to me often. Usually I have a very predictable schedule. But every once in
Ridiculous The Lost Journal Series: Part IX Today, enjoy another set of journal entries and video from the The Lost Journal Series. Lots of important thoughts in this one. December 8, 1994 (10 years old): Today we had our Histry Fair. I'm going to the Finals so is Kile
Emma Life is Really Something Funny Occasionally I glance back through older posts on Stranger. Usually I keep this walk through memory lane to the Palau posts, because I find them fascinating now that I'
Ridiculous My first WHAT THE KIDS ARE CALLING CD. The first CD I ever bought was when I was 12 years old. Jon Scoville was the coolest kid my age in the neighborhood. And he is also responsible for teaching me 75% of what I currently know about sex. NOT THAT I KNOW
Ridiculous The Lost Journal Series: Part VIII Today I give you the next part in the dramatic series taken directly from my childhood journals. Again, I include a video of my dramatic reading of the below journal entries. I tried recording this video many times but I kept laughing at a
Ridiculous The Lost Journal Series: Part VII So here I am sitting in my apartment, drinking waaaaay too much NEVER YOU MIND WHAT I'M DRINKING. Fine. Nonalcoholic black currant juice from the Farmer's Market. But it has a LOT of sugar. Don't tell Bob and
Ridiculous Cathie Conversation with Cathie on the Phone Cathie: Son, how are you? Eli: Doing fine. How are you? Cathie: Well not great. Eli: And why is that? Cathie: WELL. I happened
Nostalgia A Little Look Back Exciting announcement: The Porch invited me back to tell a story this Saturday evening in Salt Lake City. We've escaped Provo! We'll be at a venue
Ridiculous Fourth Grade Science Time I was a pretty weird kid when I was 10. Also a weird teenager from ages 13 to 18. Probably more accurate to say that I was a weird teenager from 13 to present. I really hope that one day puberty fixes this. For
Nostalgia The Law Firm I will be telling a story on The Porch Thursday evening in Provo. If you're interested in joining us, you can find tickets and information here [http://utahporch.org/tickets/]. If you do come, be sure to say hi and compliment my
Church Palau Meets Salt Lake City Last week my worlds collided. And it was really strange. One of the boys from Palau, whom I got to know very well working with the church kids for one
The Siblings Krisanda's Birthday Today is my sister Krisanda's birthday. She's turning 21 again. All four of Bob and Cathie's children started turning 21 every year sometime around 2010. It's been great to be the same age finally. Krisanda is
Daniel You People Rock My World Yesterday I wrote this post about what's happening in Ukraine [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2014/03/ukraine.html]. I wrote it because Daniel has been telling me for a solid month that I should. I hesitated writing it partly because I didn&
Mexico A History of Daniel It was strange to see Daniel last weekend. For months and months our lives were one. They were totally one. And then, suddenly, they weren't anymore. Daniel and
Ridiculous Twenty Years Later, a Valentine's Confession Happy Valentine's Day weekend. When I was in the fourth grade I brought Power Ranger Valentines to school to give to everyone in my class. I don't know why I did this because for some reason I generally tried to
Mexico 2013 I just read the 2012 wrap-up post. I read about how it was my best year. About how our past can be an asset or a liability depending on how we use it. About how if we are living the right way, the best
Daniel A Christmas Gift I've never been much of a Christmas person. There are a lot of reasons for this. But one of the big ones is that I really struggle with