buried in books and rambling about it

Sitting at the computer, there is a wall of books, double deep, to my right. Over my left shoulder, across the room, there is another small bookshelf spilling the baby books out. In my bedroom, we have a bookshelf stacked tight with hardbacks and paperbacks, then the dressers that serves as my nightstand has several …

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I appreciated my teachers in sketches

Happy teacher appreciation day. For blog posts about this, I would suspect the common theme would be similar to the tweet that Obama posted, thanking his 5th grade teacher. I had some pretty amazing teachers and I could rattle off a list of them with stories about how they impacted me. Could you? Could you rattle off the …

Back to school night

Dom and I knew that we would be on our own for dinner tonight because Dada (a.k.a. Chef Guapo) had Back to School Night. I may have forgotten how to cook in the 3+ years since getting married. I may have forgotten whether or not I DID cook when I was single. Snickers for dinner was once …

The BYU testing center

Nathan has been a student at BYU for a year now. The other night, I mentioned the “MOA café”. “Moa?” he asked. His BYU and my BYU are different. This was my BYU: I lived in dorms on campus as a freshman. I walked or bussed to campus from nearby apartments the other years. I …

Confession: I Never Learned to Speed Read

I've purchased books on "how to speed read" before, but never got around to reading them. I found that, well, humorous. I felt like it was a skill I should probably learn in order to survive as an English major. Somehow, I survived without it. I read most of the books I was assigned to read …

Uintah, You Make My Heart Sing

If you haven't heard (it's been ALL over the news), my old Alma Mater made a boo boo by taking away kids' food at lunch because they didn't have money in their accounts. Here's one of the many news sites with a story about it: Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City …

Teacher Appreciation Week

Did you appreciate teachers this week? Did you know that was this week? Here are a few of my favorite teachers: Mrs. Adams, my first grade teacher: she taught me to write my name in Chinese characters and we went to a typing class once a week. That’s right. Typing. In first grade. On typewriters. …

In Love With Fall

I know. It’s not Fall yet. We’re still hanging on to the summer warmth, which I notice when I climb into my car at the end of a work day and can’t put my arm down to rest on the middle console because the black material (it’s not leather, it’s not fabric, I don’t know …

How to Survive College

My sense of humor has changed as I’ve grown older. I suppose you can chalk it up to maturity, if you believe that I’ve grown more mature. The following journal entry, I thought was hilarious when I wrote it, as a freshman surviving BYU and living in an apartment with 6 girls and ONE BATHROOM. …

Quoting Larrie the High School Kid

I felt like collecting a hodgepodge of “goodness” from the pages of my high school journal. Have you ever done that? See, I have this thing where I really like lists. I make them in paragraphs, in bulleted formats and in my head when I should be sleeping. So this is a fun list because …