Saturdays have become less of a relaxing day and more of a "work outside of the office" day. Between the demands of the recent campaign, maintenance on the house, and pitching in on service projects, it feels like it's been forever since there's been a Saturday of nothing but sitting around and doing absolutely nothing. […]
Filed under: Politics, Church, Life, Shauna on November 13th, 2006 | 4 Comments »
"Honey catches more flies than vinegar." It's an old English proverb and like most proverbs, there's something to it. In the art of persuasion, you are more likely to bring someone to your point of view with civility, rationality, and concessions when you are either wrong or don't know the answer. Politics, it seems, prefers […]
Filed under: Politics, Church, Utah on November 1st, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I'm sure all of you have at some point either done or seen a connect the dots puzzle. You go in numeric order drawing lines between the dots until you have a picture of something. Imagine the chaos that would ensue if you tried to connect the dots from two different pages to try and […]
Filed under: Politics, Church on October 22nd, 2006 | 2 Comments »
The best laid plans almost went awry today. Repeatedly. Today's plan was to make an 8:30AM session at the new Sacramento temple, meet Vanessa and The Other Shauna in Placerville for Z'pie, and then head over to the Swift's reception at 7PM.
Filed under: Church, Food, Travel, Chloe on October 8th, 2006 | 4 Comments »
A judge in New York ruled that charitable donations, including tithing, can be excluded from your bankruptcy settlement contrary to the 1998 Religous Liberty Act. He's claiming that the newly-passed bankruptcy laws allow him to do so. While he might be inside the law, that doesn't make him right.
That's a big deal to those […]
Filed under: Politics, Church on September 17th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
When you're LDS and live outside of Utah, you always hear about "Utah Mormons". Most of what you hear isn't very flattering either. Based on their descriptions, Utah Mormons are exclusionary gossiping backstabbers who wouldn't give you the time of day. This doesn't sound like the kind of people you'd want to hang around or […]
Filed under: Church, Utah on September 15th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
So on Sunday at the end of Sunday School, Jesse got up to leave (I get to stay because it's in the Relief Society room). The positioning of the chairs doesn't leave a whole lot of room so as he's scooting by me, he's nearly sitting on my lap. I may or may not have […]
Filed under: Church, Jesse, Marriage on September 12th, 2006 | 10 Comments »
I'm a pretty low-key guy when it comes to bringing up religious topics, and by low-key I mean I don't really do it. Sure, it'll pop up with close friends and family, but never really with acquaintances. Maybe that's the byproduct of not having had the "mission experience", something almost requisite for a Mormon guy.
Now, […]
Filed under: Church on August 24th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
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