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It's homework night and I'm working on a research paper and doing the assigned reading for tomorrow's philosophy class. In honor of my philosophy teacher, who's from Northern Ireland, I'm drinking Bushmills Black Bush Irish Whiskey, which he recommended to me. Tonight I'm drinking it neat. I might h...

The best part of my mission were the service projects we did: my favorites were when we'd go to one of the hospitals in El Paso and played with the kids who were patients. I fell hard for the big brown eyes of a 5 year old names Juan Carlos, who was there almost every single week due to his major il...

Yes, I still receive emails from time to time. Just this week I got an email because I'm a "superstar indexer". Seriously? I think I did less than 10 names about 4 or 5 years ago. Pretty low standards if that's what it takes to get "superstar indexer" status...

i'm certain before it's all over that there will be some picture of jesus or a book of mormon or some extra special artifact that will remain untouched from the effects of the flooding - there will be miracle in all this dammit... there will be...

the closest i've been to church in about a year and a half are 2 mormon feminist retreats - so NOT like church at the last retreat i talked to about 30 women about owning their sexuality and the many uses of vibrators i also may have mentioned to them that i think it's a bunch of hooey to confess 's...

I got an email message from some chick on Family Search asking me to release the hold that I have on the record of my great great grandmother so that she (supposedly a very very distant familial relation) could do the temple work for her. Once upon a time, I myself was planning on doing that work fo...

I'm just finishing up a class this summer. It's "Biology of Hope and Belief" and it's super interesting. It's looking at hope and belief from an evolutionary standpoint. Here is the course description: Course Description: The underlying premise of this course is that the human mind and human behavio...

Satan is now using logic and reasoning against us? That diabolical bastard!

Good thing that our loving HF is still using fear and guilt, lest we all fall victim to that damned logic and reasoning!

This topic came up at a RS enrichment playgroup one day. Everyone wanted to know how to make sex better, wanting to do something similar to what you are doing. It never went anywhere, unfortunately. :lol: Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is an LDS therapist who specializes in relationship and sexuality coun...

My Utah in-laws are in town visiting for the next 2 weeks. I took my mother-in-law and sister-in-law with me to the grocery store the night after they got here to pick up a few things. One of the first things that they said as we walked past the wine/liquor section - "Well, we're definitely not in U...

57. rolling pin for super flaky pie crusts - the vibrating action helps to evenly disperse the butter 56. baton for leading the music in sacrament meeting 55. use them for a game at the next adult-only trunk or treat - stand them up and use them for a ring toss game and remember, silver bullets are ...

I have officially accepted the responsibility to lead this discussion at the retreat now. I have also informed my husband of this decision - I let him know that we can celebrate our anniversary on another weekend. I don't know if he understands why I want to go to this, let alone speak on such a 'pr...

Last year I went to my first Mormon feminist retreat and I volunteered to help plan this year's retreat. The date of my 10 year anniversary was to coincide with the retreat and I thought we'd probably be celebrating, so I told my friend that although I might not be coming, the least I could do was t...

my konfession of the day... i just enrolled to take a wine and beer in western cultures class at The Ohio State University next semester - i forsee a few wine tastings in my near future... plus, if i end up taking human anatomy and medical terminology also next semester, i'm going to need a drink ev...

i'm at a loss for words, which hardly ever happens...

powerful. emotional. brilliant. brave... tyler glenn is amazing for being able to harness all those feelings and thoughts and put them into such a poetic masterpiece...

i can't love this enough...

i want to do something. trying to decide what would be best? do i post on facebook a photo of my old missionary tag in flames and change my fb cover photo to the mama dragon logo? write an essay about my feelings that day when i first read about it and the ensuing loss of my faith as i came out of m...

allow me to make a correction... 'god is a real estate developer' is from captain swing, not short, sharp, shocked... mixed up my albums (old age, ya know)... still like this song despite the controversies the singer has been involved in throughout her career, but more recently in the last few years...

'dear god' by xtc would definitely be on my list. I think I might add 'god is a real estate deleloper' by michelle shocked... For anyone not familiar with this little gem, look it up... I loved this song when I first listened to it on 'short sharp shocked' back in the late 80's... here are the words...

so i wrote a song not long after i left byu that explained my thoughts at the time. you see, i didn't fit in very well - goth-lite girls with guitars and ideas and demons... well, yeah... i was the odd chick who shuffled along to my own crazy beat, but who desperately wished she fit in just a little...

sadly, yes, you are the new special project. and the shepherds sent out to guide you safely home must return and report. accountability for the souls of our brothers and sisters is serious business. and at this point they're all trying to outfellowship each other... 'i took him cookies'... 'well, we...