poetry while waiting in the car and drumming your fingers on the steering wheel because you are waiting for your son or daughter or you are afraid to go in to the hospital or you are dropping off a friend and there is nothing on the radio it is all...

You all know I'm a live-and-let-live kind of person, so I surprise myself sometimes with my visceral reaction against breast implants, liposuction, facelifts, and other types of elective surgery. It's not only that I don't think they're safe, or that...

I read this quote today, and it made me laugh, it was so Brigham Young-ish. But it also brought up some questions, as reading the words of early prophets tends to do. Brigham Young, teaching of Adam/God: I feel inclined to make a little scripture....

Tonight I read Ty Mansfield's post at North Star about his hopes for more dialogue between Mormon leadership and the GLBT community. Although I agree with him that rhetoric has softened, I must say that I don't see much of a change at all in terms of...

This was cross-posted over at Mormon Matters. I took my 10-year-old and 2 friends to see the movie "Where the Wild Things Are," and I watched enthralled as they yawned, ate candy, threw popcorn, and cheered when it was finally over. Apparently the...