i represented the mormon faith yesterday at an interfaith thanksgiving meeting. i gave a little talk, and my seven year-old son read alma 37:37 from the book of mormon: counsel with the lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the [...]

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jana is reading a condensed version of les miserables in french. she just read the part where jean valjean is on parole and is denied lodging at various inns and homes and is even chased out of a doghouse by the growling canine resident. valjean then tells himself, “i am not even a dog.” i [...]

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i’m probably going to lose half of you with this post, but i’ve been thinking a lot about this subject. i love the solidarity being displayed in america. but i feel like we’re not going far enough. if our highest feelings are for america, we will never end the mad cycle that fosters the environment [...]

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sometimes i look out at the night sky and am amazed by the number of stars i can see, even here in light-polluted southern california. for each star in my field of vision (in my neighborhood probably less than 500 even on a good dark night), i know that there at least 400 million other [...]

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the tooth fairy has had a hard time at the remy household. my son lost five of his baby teeth over the past year or two. i think the first time he was suspicious. “i put a tooth under my pillow and i get money? are you sure?” after the first magical transformation, he got [...]

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the monitor sits solidly in front of me, thin blue and grey bars across the top, another grey bar across the bottom. a field of perfect whiteness fills the expanse in between, marred only by lines of black courier text which grow across the page in rapid spurts between long pauses. the electron gun hidden [...]

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i am a contradiction, a hypocrisy, a paradox. maybe i deserve to be thrown into an institution and drugged up for schizophrenia. i am a spiritual, intuitive, emotional being that is capable of reasoning. or perhaps i am an intelligent, rational, thinking being who is also capable of faith. or both. i’m still trying to [...]

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i am on a quest for content. i am climbing the everest of internet pages and peering into the cracks and crevices, seeking for those rare golden nuggets of well-written personal narratives, essays, and journal entries. if you know of any sites that publish quality content on a regular basis, please let me know, or [...]

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i wrote this piece a few months ago, after my first visit to the museum of tolerance in los angeles: i finally had the chance to go to the simon wiesenthal museum of tolerance today. i was surprised that it didnít have the impact on me that visiting the atomic bomb museum in nagasaki, watching [...]

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