Category Archives: Fun Stuff

The 4th: part dos

Posted on July 8, 2009 by K

Parade day is always good exercise.  If you don’t get up at five to stake your claim (which we don’t), you do a whole lot of walking (which we do).  Sometimes through parts of town you’ve never seen before.  I … Continue reading →

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The 4th: part uno

Posted on July 6, 2009 by K

  A little (HA) photo essay about the things I loved this 4th— Part One The Hometown Parade: we make it a science Every year as the kids grew up, we made our way to Ginger’s house, a lovely pioneer … Continue reading →

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Facing the elephant

Posted on June 4, 2009 by K

There’s all this stuff I want to write about. Even if nobody ever read this, I’d want to remember it, talk about it. But life is like this moving sidewalk on steroids, and things whip past before you have a … Continue reading →

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More Scrap

Posted on May 29, 2009 by K

  More little scraps. To begin with: the company I keep. This is me, kind of dorky, always communicating (cry for those who live with me), a little dumpy, but well meaning and not terribly exciting.   This is my … Continue reading →

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Conclavity of the Arts

Posted on May 17, 2009 by K

When I was invited to function as the Mormon Arts Foundation’s Chair of Literature some years ago, I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it.  Yeah, we make our living in the music biz, but that’s all just working class … Continue reading →

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Saturday

Posted on April 25, 2009 by K

HUZZAH for the husband who’ll come out in the drizzle and fire up the hobby tractor (with the reluctant battery) and muscle a 5000 pound roll of no-climb horse fence and a fence stretcher and still be patient with me … Continue reading →

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Easter

Posted on April 16, 2009 by K

First of all, may I tell you that after all that snow yesterday, the sun came out and melted it all?  We went to bed looking forward to more spring, which we thought would come bounding back today.  Ummm.  At … Continue reading →

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Luba

Posted on April 2, 2009 by K

I found Peter Hagerty when I was cruising the web, looking for instructions as to how to make a simple felted wool ball. Don’t ask me why I wanted to do this; there are just so many fascinating materials to … Continue reading →

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Ze petite book club

Posted on April 1, 2009 by K

Generally, I don’t belong to things.  One fairly significant church affiliation is about the limit of my claustrophobic soul’s ability to commit itself.  Oh, and marriage and motherhood, both of which took some serious consideration.  This is why I stopped … Continue reading →

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And the winnah is . . .

Posted on February 23, 2009 by K

Drum Roll  Please!!!! (See, Megs?  I figured out how to do color!!  Woo-hoo!) Are you holding your breath?  Is your heart pounding? And if it’s not you, it’s not my fault.  It’s G’s.  Because I made him draw the winning … Continue reading →

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