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The Phoenix Always Rises
Over the last two days, I watched with baited breath (and the rest of the world) as each of the Chilean miners emerged from the tiny hole to the surface. What an amazing feat!
I cannot imagine what those miners went through the last two months. Over sixty days trapped so far below the surface? I can barely stand the thought of visiting the local ( Read more... ) -
Schmancy Glasses Case is Uber Schmancy
Remember my post about Zenni Optical? Where I praised their customer service?
Well, I'm back for round two. And do I have an excellent showing for you!
Let me first say, once more, I just LOVE to proclaim it loud and clear when I receive exemplorary customer service. There is just far too much whining and the like in the world. People should get ( Read more... ) -
It all started with a simple invitiation...
I went to my mailbox one day and found an invitation to a great photography seminar. I waffled about going. I know you are all telling me I am stupid for not immediately signing up, but still, I waffled. It's not that I don't want to be pro, or somehow haven't found myself well on the way to going pro, I just sometimes have a hard time seeing ( Read more... ) -
Blogging and Journalism and Musings
"Blogging is more real than journalism." I heard this quote just recently. To be honest, I hear this a lot.
As a person with a journalism background, it sort of rankles me. As a blogger, I really don't know that I would classify my writings as "journalism". Have I done things that could end up in a local paper? Well sure. Though I will admit that ( Read more... ) -
Words...
Words. They are what we use to express what we mean. Often we tend to use the same words over and over. The same mannerisms. People can know us by the way we speak and the way we write.
In fact, every person has their own writing "fingerprint". It can truly fascinate a person if they really want to study it. Me? I don't want to study it. I just ( Read more... ) -
Schedules
I grew up in the over-paced overs-cheduled world we find ourselves living in. I'm honestly not sure how my parents kept up with some of this stuff. Summer camps, after school activities, clubs, dance, friends, visiting with family, and so forth. It was truly insane and only worsened the older I got ( Read more... ) -
Longsuffering
One of the blogs I follow spoke on long-suffering last week. It asked that we all think about what it means to be long-suffering. Then my Bishop spoke about it in testimony meeting. Think this means something? (Maybe it just means he also reads Christian HomeKeeper, but somehow I doubt it...)
I think the most profound thing I've ever heard about " ( Read more... ) -
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I decided before I ever entered Kindergarten that I wanted to write. I loved making up stories, but even then I was smart enough to realize that writing little stories meant I'd slowly starve to death. My plan? Journalism. It had absolutely nothing to do with my schoolgirl crush on Superman. Which I've totally gotten past, too. No, really. I have ( Read more... ) -
Pew Forum Survey on US Religious Knowledge
A new study out by the Pew Research Center takes a look at religious knowledge across the United States. Some are shocked by the results, while others are not. What are your thoughts on the study stating that the most knowledgeable groups about religion comprise of atheists, Jews, and Mormons?
These findings resulted in quite a few ruffled feathers ( Read more... )
