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Obsession…I Mean, Intense Focus
4 September 2008 @ 04:37 | Small Epiphanies | 24 Comments
Like millions of others around the globe, I was entranced with the Olympics this year. Each night, I sat down to several hours of TiVo’d events, marveling at the athletic spectacle. Almost as much as I enjoyed seeing athletes compete, I enjoyed watching the athletes themselves – their toned, muscular bodies competing at the [...]
My Life is a Reality Show
21 August 2008 @ 04:56 | Small Epiphanies | 12 Comments
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that in attempting to measure the position of a particle the position of the particle becomes uncertain – that making a measurement alters the particle being measured. A corollary to this is the Observer’s Paradox, which states that the observation of an event or experiment is influenced by the presence [...]
Living with Dying, Part II
1 August 2008 @ 09:14 | Guest Post | 17 Comments
My 6 year old son, E, suffered a brain injury at birth. Due to this injury, he has cerebral palsy with epilepsy, blindness, serious developmental delays and a host of other medical problems. He’s very susceptible to respiratory infections. I wrote about him in “Living with Dying” for Segullah several months ago. [...]
And Mary Kept All Things
23 December 2007 @ 06:36 | Guest Post | 4 Comments
Every year at Christmas, I ponder about the birth of Savior, but I also think about His mother, Mary.
Are Mothers Born or Made?
4 December 2007 @ 08:14 | Guest Post | 10 Comments
Here is another welcome guest post from Andrea R. There are days when I am covered in barf, poop, pee, and mucus, when children are clamoring, and when juggling two little ones and a disabled child leave me feeling completely overwhelmed. I think to myself, “I am NOT cut out for this job!”Having grown up in [...]
Living with Dying
17 November 2007 @ 12:38 | Guest Post | 19 Comments
Guest Post from Andrea R. To read more from Andrea, go here and here.Every morning I wake up and wonder if E has died in the night. I walk to his room and listen, waiting to hear the sound of his labored breathing and cough and hoping for silence. He coughs, and [...]
It’s All About Poop
4 November 2007 @ 12:20 | Guest Post | 11 Comments
Another Guest Post from Andrea R. Thanks! Again. When my husband and I first were married, we talked about a lot of things. We’d go to movies and then spend the evening discussing and critiquing them. One year, we saw every movie that had been nominated for an Academy Award. We [...]
When Through Deep Waters I Call Thee to Go
29 October 2007 @ 08:41 | Guest Post | 19 Comments
This is a guest post from Andrea R. She is the wife of a wonderfully supportive husband and mother of three little boys aged 5 1/2, 2 1/2, and 6 1/2 months. She served a mission to Chile and received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from BYU. She also teaches Microbiology [...]
