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Something I started doing a little over a year ago was writing down what I watched and read. I’m still doing this, but here’s a year’s worth...

Me in sacrament meeting. Up close and personal photo by Lars Polly on the floor during the second and third hours of church. She was out lik...

You may or may not know that I turned 35 last month. And Matt gave me a laptop for my birthday! So, after however many years of blogging on ...

You may or may not know that in January we got home from a 4-week (more precisely, 31-day) road trip across the United States and back...

I kept a pretty thorough journal from about age 10 to age 20. And apparently even before then, because my mom recently send me stuff she’d f...

I found this post in my drafts from a year and a half ago. I think I’m already starting to forget... When I was a tween (before that w...

Well, I just wrote an entire post about periods, which I then didn't publish because I wasn't sure if it was oversharing. (OK, I kne...

Winter is gone for real. For real! No more snow. I feel it in my bones. Cold days yes, snow days no. Hopefully I'm not wrong about that....

Enjoy some photos of Matt and me in our much much younger days. Look at Matt with his bangs and his beloved dog Jenny. Look at me with my...

Me and my paper plate-head friend in 1980-something. Ida would love this. Sometimes when she's supposed to be getting dressed, instea...

Tiny party hats courtesy of Hannah and Ella. Sisters courtesy of Harry and Barbara. I was cleaning out my nightstand and found my resol...

My sister Hannah reminded me that it has now been 9 years of blogging for us. Here are some blogging thoughts from my first couple of blog ...

When I read things like this, I just have to laugh, and also tell myself to have sympathy for all those lazy ol' college kids because co...

Kinda Like My Life Is Like a Sequel to a Movie Where the Actors' Names Have Changed Wednesday, January 12, 2000 1:42 PM OK let me just s...

Mom and me Originally uploaded by Elizarock . I often go walking in meadows of clover Earlier today I called my mom and told her Happy...

"Let's don't wait 'til the water runs dry" Just a little somethin' for all you Boyz II Men fans out there. Well,...

"And I was like..." Periodically I flip through my journal from high school. You may know this, seeing as I've quoted from it...

"Reigning champion of the geeks" Remember my diary project? You would not believe how much stuff I wrote in high school. Every s...

Dear Diary... [This would be me at age fourteen.] Sunday, November 2, 1997 Sometimes I wonder if I should have been born and raised in the c...

The way we were... "Memories...light the corners of my mind...misty water-colored memories, of the way we were." What a terrible s...