A new book has hit the online shelves – Beyond Belief: What if Jesus Wrote His Own Creed? by Russ Hinckley. This project was an editing referral from Susan Hinckley, from the At Last She Said It podcast – Russ is her husband. She told me about it when I met her in Utah lastContinue reading “Beyond Belief”
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op-ed
I wrote an op-ed for Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) to be published in Virginia media outlets prior to the November 2023 election. I don’t know that it was ever printed, or if it was, where. So I’ll hang onto it here because it’s still very applicable, and by the way – please supportContinue reading “op-ed”
reading list: 2023
Books read in 2023: Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life Sutton Foster Design Mom: A room by room guide to living well with kids Gabrielle Stanley Blair Write For Your Life Anna Quindlen The Fixer Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The City Baker’sContinue reading “reading list: 2023”
2023 top ten
10: Starting Scouts BSA with four of my five kiddos has been a challenge. When we’re actually DOING SCOUTS – campouts, skills development – life is good and the kids are progressing well. But among the adult leadership, there’s a lot of angry jockeying for power and it’s … not what I expected. My self-appointedContinue reading “2023 top ten”
a Mother’s Day sermon
I spoke in church on Mother’s Day (May 14, 2023) about the Latter-day Saint doctrine of a Mother in Heaven. Here’s the speech: Good afternoon, and Happy Mother’s Day! An online institute teacher said recently that sacrament meeting talks tend to fall into two categories: good news and good advice. Good news talks bear testimony.Continue reading “a Mother’s Day sermon”
reading list: Broadway
Book one for 2023 is notched on my Goodreads scorecard! I read Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster. She’s apparently been a major actress for a few decades, winning multiple Tony awards and acting in TV shows. But I don’t watch TV and only recently started paying attention to theater, so theContinue reading “reading list: Broadway”
Eagle or bust
You know how sometimes a person decides to do a crazy big project that’s completely out of their element, and blog as they go, and then publish their adventure in a book? I found my crazy, big, long-term project to write into a book: I’m going to earn my Eagle. Yeah, the Boy Scouts Eagle.Continue reading “Eagle or bust”
2022 in review
January: It snowed, and my whole family got Covid. I read a couple of books while I was starting to get better but that’s about it. We didn’t do much. Certainly no editing or writing work. Adam and I had decided at Thanksgiving to move from Connecticut to the Washington DC area in the summer,Continue reading “2022 in review”
7 random things I’ve done
I have a lot of new followers on the Instagram account, so I wrote an introduction post with 7 random things I’ve done: 1 – Adam and I were balloon wranglers in the National Independence Day parade in Washington DC. We were on a team of five that steered an Uncle Sam hat down ConstitutionContinue reading “7 random things I’ve done”
reading list: birds, but not birds
I decided a long time ago to homeschool myself further into the writing and publishing world. Class is in session. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott The fun part is that this book starts off with “When I teach a writing class,” and she refers to her students throughoutContinue reading “reading list: birds, but not birds”