Thoughts from General Conference
Twice a year, members of my church gather around the world to hear the prophet, the members of the quorum of the twelve apostles, and other church leaders speak for 10 hours over two days. For many of...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #29: Van Heflin Does Shakespeare
One of my favorite parts in Presenting Lily Mars is when Van Heflin teaches Judy Garland how to play Lady Macbeth. In three minutes you can see how understanding the why can make an immediate...
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A Bit of Happy #22: Infertility, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, and Spry Gum
Dear Helen, Dear John, It happened again. This whole reliving conversations from the past as I find myself having almost the same exact ones in the present, and it’s like a decade didn’t happen. I...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #17: End Road Work
Where we live has been a massive construction zone for years. Road work everywhere. I keep thinking there must be something about road construction that I don’t know that makes putting every road on...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #16: Shakespeare, Bill Cosby, and Tom Conti
This episode of Cosby is one that always makes me smile. It combines several things I enjoy: Cosby, Shakespeare, and a delightful performance by Tom Conti as the Bard. It is a quirky, fun reminder of...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #10: Reading, Russian, and the Soviet Union
I taught myself to read when I was four and have read fairly easily and happily ever since- until the last few months that is. It’s been hurting a lot to read just lately. I often have pain after...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #6: Christian Ferras Playing Sibelius
I first discovered Jean Sibelius (among many other wonderful things) in Tennessee. I love libraries, but I will always have a special fondness for Nashville’s for this reason (along with the fact that...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #4: Being a Toy Reviewer and Tester
Earlier this year my sister-in-law started a business that makes German and Swiss toys that develop STEM skills readily available to those in the United States. (Simply thinking about the many language...
View ArticleMeet the Mormons
I enjoy documentaries, oral histories, and peeks behind the scenes into how things are made and done. This weekend I had the opportunity to go with friends and family to watch the documentary Meet the...
View ArticleIllness, German, and Persistence
I’m still working on German, albeit like everything else in my life e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y. This is from necessity not choice. I’ve been really sick (as in freaking the nurse out with my vitals...
View ArticleM is for the Magic of Maps
“I was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1935. The Warsaw blitz occurred in 1939, when I was four years old. I remember streets caving in, buildings burning or crumbling to dust, and a bomb falling into the...
View ArticleR is for Italian Rain
When I announced my decision to study abroad in China when I was in college, only two people in my life were supportive: my mom and a very eccentric great-aunt. While everyone else around me was...
View ArticleS is for Still
It isn’t easy to be still- even when you are sick and can’t move much! That’s because stillness is also a quality of soul. I once read that still waters become clear. When I find myself muddled, it’s...
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