A picture my daughter took of her brother in the Salt Lake City Public Library.

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I bought a package of “No Pudge Fudge” from Trader Joe’s a while back. Jana said she had tried it before, and the consistency was comparable to wet tar. On a hot July day. In the Sahara.
It’s been a year or two now, and since the roof wasn’t in immediate need of […]

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Run, do not walk, to www.worldonfire.ca. I haven’t been this moved by a music video since I first watched Dave Matthews’ Gravedigger (in the gym, without audio, and I was on the verge of breaking into tears on the treadmill). Thank you, Sarah.
I lost it–began sobbing–when watching Schindler’s List towards the end of […]

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Two new Apostles were added to the leadership of the Mormon Church yesterday. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the leadership of the LDS Church, the 15 highest positions are for “lifers”–that is, those who are chosen to become Apostles serve until they die. The senior apostle (age 94) is the […]

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Reading Marathon Mile Three
(completed: 1896/9898 pages)

I finished reading Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint a few days ago. It’s actually mile #9 of my reading marathon, so it’s a bit out of order, but 400 pages of careful historical and textual exegesis was pretty grueling, and I didn’t want to follow that up […]

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