A life in words

  • Fall Semester

    I blame my lack of blogging in recent months on being busy with my first semester of graduate school. In the interim before I start the next semester, I want to let you—oh loyal reader—know what was going on in my life during that time. 1. Per my stake president’s counsel given more than a…

  • What Will Become?

    So there’s this girl who thinks she’s no good because she’s like me and you you know she makes mistakes does not nice things does good things for wrong reasons in other words she’s amazing, just not perfect I wish she could see wish she could feel wish that she would stop hurting herself but…

  • Dinner on 19 October 2009

    Tonight for my dinner group I cooked an assortment of dishes: 1. Greek-inspired beef. I bought several pounds of roast for something like 5 dollars, sliced it into long strips, and cooked it along with fresh parsley, tomatoes, fresh spinach, red wine vinegar, soy sauce, tomato paste, a little bit of hot hungarian paprika (which…

There is nothing I dread so much, as a division of the Republic into two great Parties, each arranged under its leader and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This in my humble apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson, 2 Oct 1780