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Plan B sounds beautiful! Fingers crossed that you get the opportunity to go for it.

AZflyer, you are a brace soul. I am sure that many more people appreciated and felt your question than were able to tell you about it. Keep fighting the good fight. You earned some crazy amounts of respect from me.

Strep.

This is definitely what the world needs right now - thanks for sharing!

I recently read an article about the possible healing power of touch, which seems to work perfectly with the idea of a blessing. While it does not rule out the possibility of touch being a placebo effect, there seems to be a connection between being touched by those whom you love/trust and being hea...

As I have mentioned in previous posts, the births of my children were traumatic. My pregnancies were unhealthy at best. I was never ill enough to require hospitalization, but I was unable to do anything most of the time. I was too sick to notice how much I was missing/neglecting. I was on bed rest f...

perfection!

Lately my social media has been flooded with photos of beautiful children, which is something that I usually enjoy. However, this most recent wave has a serious handle on the creep factor. I'm seeing 8 year old kids wearing three piece suits or white dresses that closely resemble wedding gowns proud...

I think I stopped believing in the power of blessings when my son was born. He wasn't breathing and was rushed out of my hospital room immediately after birth. Doctors, nurses, and my midwife used their expertise, medication, and equipment to save my son's life. He was given a blessing after most of...

The preferential gender treatment within the church begins to really display itself in primary budget. In my ward, for ever one dollar spent on a primary aged girl three are spent on her male peer. There is no way to mask this as anything other than a culture of sexism. Don't allow the blame to fall...

I love this story and the relationship you are building with your son! He will be a healthier human for knowing that he can say no. It's a difficult thing to learn as an adult. I'm working on saying no and it is an empowering word!

Oh, the drama created and perpetuated by this website! When my calling was to be a family history specialist about 6 years ago, my mother strictly informed me not to touch our family line or I would mess it up. You see my aunt does all of the family history for our family, and we wouldn't want to ma...

I have an ancestor who sold moonshine to the mafia during prohibition.

This coffee. It tastes like Christmas and happiness. It is so worth the time it takes to make!

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes-menus ... pe-article

That shift in narration changes the whole story! Wow! Excellent observation. My unpopular opinion has always been that he was in too many polygamous relationships and had ceased to view women as anything other than objects of pleasure. Getting rid of Uriah was just a way to get a pretty new concubin...

It seems to me that "presiding" within families as portrayed in church culture is really good at a few things; passing the buck when it comes to familial responsibility, laying blame, and making men feel horribly guilty. I don't think that it's healthy. A church phrase that I've been using lately to...

Welcome!

I celebrated Thanksgiving with my Catholic extended family today and 2bizE is right; we gave thanks for the gifts we were about to receive without asking a blessing upon food. We did, however, ask that the lord bless us. I can't tell you how many times I've recited that prayer and not noticed the di...

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded on a sleep." -William Shakespeare, The Tempest The idea that we are the creators of our own paths is becoming increasingly important to me. I don't know if there is a grandmaster of the universe, but I know that my dreams and i...

I agree. It occurred to me a while back that the purpose of religion is to comfort people. It gives an external reason to be moral. It explains death. It lends structure to life. The difficulty comes with reconciling a desire for absolute truth with finding a different sort of comfort for me. And wi...