• Grandfather Nye

    Grandfather Nye

    I was teaching my students a creative writing exercise where you try to visualize a person – what they look...
  • A Spectacular Failure

    A Spectacular Failure

    This Tuesday was our ward’s Annual Relief Society Birthday Celebration Dinner.  I signed up to bring a cake.  They use...
  • Things People Say

    Things People Say

    Today, a student said to me at the end of a poetry lesson where I made them identify every instance...
  • Amsterdam

    Amsterdam

    I recently was reminiscing and going over photo’s with a student and I came across this photo I took in...
  • Straight Out of Camera (SOOC) Shots

    Straight Out of Camera (SOOC) Shots

    For my birthday, a friend of my roommates was staying at our house and she bought me a bouquet of...
  • The Young Victoria

    The Young Victoria

    I recently just saw The Young Victoria.  I wanted to see it a long time ago, but didn’t.  I’m glad...
  • My Favorite Quote

    “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

    ~Marianne Williamson

  • The History of The Stepford Child
  • Stepford – My Stepford

    This is an aerial shot of the neighborhood I grew up in. Don't all the houses look pretty, neat, and identical? How very Stepfordy of them.