Posted in Religion/Church on Jul 29th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve had requests that I post my infamous talk here, and I’m willing to oblige, but only if you promise not to make me read it aloud! I’m posting the rough draft–as far as I got in actually writing [...]
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Posted in Religion/Church on Jul 27th, 2008
Okay, I did it and it’s over and I’m relieved. I gave my talk in church. I almost decided not to go because I felt really nauseous this morning. But I figured it’d be hard to justify not showing up when my meds prevent me from throwing up, so I knew I’d avoid that eventuality.
Colin [...]
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Posted in Self Improvement on Jul 23rd, 2008
It’s what I would call “traditional” in our church for new members of the ward to give a talk in Sacrament Meeting soon after they arrive. It doesn’t happen in every ward, and it’s certainly not required as far as I know, but it’s fairly typical–and I’ve lived in a lot of wards, so I’ve [...]
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Posted in People I Like on Mar 21st, 2007
I was tempted to call this post "My Sister, Ned," because we call her Ned in our family. Emily even calls herself Ned on occasion. She's not gay, nor manly at all. In fact, she's very feminine. Ned is creative, and in keeping with her creativity she encouraged creative nicknames. We went from Emily to [...]
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Posted in Religion/Church, Young Women on Mar 21st, 2007
Tonight we had an awesome Beehives activity about patriarchal blessings. The girls invited the Bishop to talk to them about them and they asked the one Beehive in our class who has had hers talk about her experience. It was great, and if any of you are trying to brainstorm ideas for Young Women activities, [...]
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