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A Crabby Adventure
29 July 2008 @ 09:55 | Slice of Life | 14 Comments
We were standing around a small, glass-rimmed kiosk at Alvin’s Island, a trinket-filled tourist shop a few blocks from our hotel. The kiosk contained dozens of shells with hermit crabs in them. Heaven help them, they were the ugliest creatures I have ever laid eyes on. Tammie casually began picking up shells and showing me [...]
Let Me Get That For You
25 April 2008 @ 10:26 | Small Epiphanies | 7 Comments
I want a Toyota Sienna. It is my dream minivan, if I dare admit such a thing. A Toyota was not even on the radar screen when we bought our used Chrysler; but with a fourth child on the way, we needed to get something. Two rows of seating seemed heavenly, even if we weren’t [...]
Proverbs 9:10
1 March 2007 @ 11:29 | Small Epiphanies | 7 Comments
Last Saturday I was sitting in a Catholic Mass in Naples, Florida. This is probably the only time in my life when I will be able to say that.
Small
12 November 2006 @ 21:51 | Segullah Article Discussions | 6 Comments
I have a small life. I live in a small house with thankfully small utility bills. Our town is small, with a small grocery store and small library (the librarian calling me by name on my second visit almost made up for the lack of books). Big things don’t usually happen here, and I like [...]
I Hope By Then I Will Be Ready . . .
25 September 2006 @ 08:06 | Segullah Article Discussions | 7 Comments
I have never really wanted to serve a mission. As a child, I remember secretly feeling glad (though slightly wicked) I was a girl because it meant I did not “have” to go on a mission. Even in those tender years I could tell that childbirth would be no picnic, and the reprieve from missionary [...]
