And if You Have Five Seconds to Spare, Then I'll Tell You the Story of My Life

There is a tree I pass twice daily on the way to and from work.  It's an old cottonwood with rough bark and gnarled branches twisting e...

Regarding yesterday's post, it may have escaped my attention that perhaps I'm simply not as good a  person as I might have imagined....

A few weeks ago in church, one of the members of the High Council gave a talk about the importance of keeping the Sabbath day holy.   He ga...

Real Danny Castellano (meaning the real person I'd renamed DC) has a girlfriend.  It's not me.  Oops. Oddly, we were texting ba...

One of my former boyfriends got married last weekend.  It was hard. But not for the reason one might think.  I never wanted to ...

I'll admit it, I'm addicted to The Mindy Project.  In some ways, this should not be a surprise-- I think Mindy Kaling is brilli...

The other night I was hit with a terrible bout of insomnia.  This is a particularly cruel affliction for an early-morning seminary teacher,...