Father’s Day
Jun15

Father’s Day

Dad: Part 1 Tucked away in my treasures is a hand-stitched, silk dress adorning a custom made doll. First sketched in his art books, and then molded from clay and cast with plaster. The paint, despite being 35+ years old encases a deep smooth shine. As a little girl, this doll stood tall on my bookshelf with a wireframe. She watched from afar as I grew from a toddler as a recipient, to a bride, who tucked the other earthly reminders...

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Supreme Court Ruling Same Sex Marriage
Jul01

Supreme Court Ruling Same Sex Marriage

This week is monumental in the history books of the American experience. This week will go down for good or evil in every persona’s memory. This week the weak are celebrating and the broken are weak. The United States’ Supreme Court ruling same sex marriage voted 5-4 to allow gay marriage to take place across every state of our nation. The ruling is pretty straight forward, people of the same sex are allowed to marry. Same...

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Love, Daddy
May31

Love, Daddy

Today my brother and I sat around his kitchen table, scattered about in piles of old papers. As I perused the documents, dating back to the early 1950s, a chalky dust covered my fingers. We sifted through hand written letters, school report cards, government request letters and divorce decrees. We read through condolence messages and funeral programs. The weight of choices rested heavy on my soul. There are always alternating...

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Men, women. Women, men. Both needed, both loved. The end.
Jul15

Men, women. Women, men. Both needed, both loved. The end.

Spencer W. Kimball said, “In his wisdom and mercy, our Father made men and women dependent on each other for the full flowering of their potential. Because their natures are somewhat different, they can complement each other; because they are in many ways alike, they can understand each other. Let neither envy the other for their differences; let both discern what is superficial and what is beautifully basic in those differences, and...

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