Politics Born To Run A few months ago I was invited to a meet and greet for this woman named Shireen Ghorbani [https://www.shireenforcongress.com/about/] who is running for Congress in my
Politics Episode 11: The World of Guardians We somehow made it through our first year of Strangerville. The learning curve has been steep, and will surely continue to be so. But somehow Jolyn and I have survived
Church Feed the Birds There's a popular movie out right now called "Saving Mr. Banks." It's about the making of the Mary Poppins film with Julie Andrews. I don't tend to go see movies very often in the theater because
Church The Gay People Are Getting Married For the last many years there has been a huge fight in America about marriage equality. How do I know about this? Because I've seen people scream about it on Facebook since at least 2008. In recent weeks the issue of marriage
Church About that . . . So about that whole marriage case at the Supreme Court. I'm typically pretty silent on Stranger about controversial current happenings. I think this is because I never wanted Stranger to be a forum for those kinds of things. Because for heaven'
Grandma 2009 It's that time of year again when I really start thinking about what's happened in the last 12 months. How have I changed? What has made this year different? Was this year my best yet, as it always should be?
Politics Our Nation's Capital After applying to some jobs in the Washington DC area for next summer I got an interview at a firm that I think would be my dream job. BYU had
FYI Thanks For Not Being Forward It's time we talk about email forwards. My relationship with any of you who may have sent me any of the following forwards will likely be awkward for a little while. Nothing we can't overcome I'm sure. Over
Church Standing Against Stones & Arrows I thought I would share some thoughts I've had recently. My church has recently been under a lot of attack for the support which many members of my church provided in passing proposition 8 in California last week. I am LDS (a
Politics The 30 Page Ballot After tragically getting rejected at the voting booth two days ago, I decided today that it was probably inspired as I haven't really checked out any of the issues I would be voting on and the only thing I was sure about
