First a picspam about patterning ourselves after that bastion of manliness, Admiral Adama: Life Lessons from BSG: How to Take It Like A Man, by jaxzdice. *giggles*

Doctor Who fanfiction is now in second place in what I have bookmarked on delicious.com. I have fifty-plus stories there; the dominant theme is Martha Jones. (Some of you might be pleased-- ( Read more... )

Good morning, everyone! This post has two ridiculous segues ( Read more... )

( more Twilight stuff (sorry!): context is your friend )

As I've been examining my own thoughts and feelings about the many, many different takes on the Twilight series, one thing keeps hitting me: I'm seeing the same kinds of missteps in outsiders looking at my religion that I've seen all of my life. I'll take a wild guess and say that people belonging to other less-than-mainstream religious groups see ( Read more... )

( religious quote about women and motherhood )

( cut for church squee )

I was asked to speak in Sacrament meeting at church today. ( general stuff about that )

Last night I was a chaperon at a church youth dance. Nope, Mormons don't forbid dancing... we actually have dances at our church gyms on a regular basis. Heh--when I was growing up all my (non-Mormon) friends in Oklahoma thought that was so weird. (Lots of small towns in Oklahoma used to have laws forbidding dancing... and some of my friends had ( Read more... )

Just finished watching the last session of my church's annual General Conference. Conference number one hundred seventy-eight! Now I get to watch live online at home instead of trekking to church to watch via satellite... of course, even that was faster than the earliest sessions, when members outside of Salt Lake City were happy to get reports ( Read more... )

( church, church music, a few off-topic rambles... nothing very exciting for anyone other than me )