Category Archives: Just life

Sometimes it’s wild, and sometimes it’s holy –

            A note to everyone who might have mailed me and gotten no answer: a response will come.  It’s not that I am willingly neglectful.  It’s that I’m months behind.  So I have a bunch of … Continue reading

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My birthday and other marvels of the modern age –

I actually almost wrote: “and other marbles of the modern age.”And if I had, I’d have left it, in the spirit of the way things have been rolling along.This is the third installment of the Month of Weirdness, or whatever … Continue reading

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Of babies and cakes and dang tough breaks –

The Saturday before I left for Kansas City, our Gin’s Kris delivered to us The Granddog for safe keeping.  Kris had driven him all the way from Missouri just to boot him into our yard, then turned around and headed … Continue reading

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Dang the Torpedos

I am hoping that the month of weirdness is finally over. Not that it happened in just a month. And not that it was ALL weird. I want to share the pictures of these events, and I intend to do … Continue reading

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And they say you can never go home—

Second installment of the weird month series: June 2, 2008           I don’t really know how to explain Kansas City.  It has a mystic sort of significance understood, I have thought, by nobody in my family, except maybe by my … Continue reading

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A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

Note: this and the coming entries are the follow up of the entry just before this one: Outline of the Weird Month.  Which is not actually its title.  It’s the one just under this one, before it.  Or after it. … Continue reading

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Canterbury Tales – without the Canterbury

May 25, 2008 And now to start the long tale.  Tales are bound to be long when you keep living the chapters so quickly, you never get a chance to record them.  And I am getting weary, trying to keep … Continue reading

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There be Eagles here

March 30, 2008             Yesterday, M and his near-brother, Brennan, received their Eagle Scout awards.  Brennan’s mom, who is as close to blood sister to me as you can get without the blood part—and scout advancement chairman in the ward—set … Continue reading

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Stage Door Tales

March 27, 2008             Last week, the great Ed Catmull came to BYU to open the new BYU Center for Animation, a collaborative effort of the Engineering and Computing, Math and Something and Fine Arts colleges.  Mr. Catmull is the … Continue reading

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Why the Chinese Prize Sons

Though we have run dry of Easter egg hunters, we have no shortage of people who eat breakfast. And while the eggs we peeled for Easter morning were only white as snow and brown as earth, they tasted just like … Continue reading

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