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Sunday Worship: In the Halls and Stalls

Over the last year, our ward leadership has made several calls for increased reverence. I admit that I am a repeat offender.  I am not one to stay in a row where planted.   I do understand the value of quiet devotion.  One of my favorite psalms admonishes me to “Be still and know that I [...]

The messenger

“Remember who you are.” My siblings and I did not leave the house for a date or social activity without hearing those words from my father. I believe it was a tradition handed down from his parents and was just as much a reminder to honor the family name as to be mindful of the [...]

All because she asked

The other day while I was at work I received a text message from a friend of mine asking me what my day was like. I asked her what was up and this was her reply: “The kids and I are sick and have been all weekend. I want some comfort food. I can’t bear [...]

This is the Tale of Two Parkers.

This is also, by extension, the tale of two friends, Renée and Melissa, and of two families, the Halls and the Bradfords, and of two freak events that yanked all of the above onto two different but similar, unforeseen and shadowy trajectories. The tale tells how such yanking might dislocate some joints, but how it [...]

I Don’t Have a Friend

Last Sunday I looked around the Relief Society room and realized that after more than a year in my new ward I don’t actually have a friend. This is a somewhat unusual position for me: I always have a friend, and if I don’t, I make one right away. My ward is mostly friendly, but [...]

leeway

Is there anything better than people who accept us for who we are? Friends who know our weaknesses but laugh them off and frankly forgive us? Five days a week, for the last nine months we’ve carpooled with these sweet people. It’s part of rhythm of our days. I drive Gwen and Mary to kindergarten, [...]

BFF

I looked at a picture my old high school friend posted on Facebook. Her face is turned to the side and her mother is laughing beside her. It took me a few moments to realize that I had it all wrong. The laughing woman was my friend, and the young girl was her teenage daughter. [...]

From the Inside Looking Out

  I never thought about it happening on a play date. My new-found friend and I had spent a delightful day making bread, mixing soup and baking cookies. While the kids played happily, we talked about art, literature, church, friends and living providently while we swapped funny stories and checked on the kids. We talked [...]

The Business of Making Friends

Yesterday we spent the day traipsing from one side of Manhattan to the other. Our long-time friend is in town, my hubby had the day off of work; it was the last day of summer so we decided to make a day of it. We explored a new City park on the abandoned tracks of [...]

Singular Opportunities

Today’s post comes from Ellen Patton, born and raised in Van Nuys, California and moved to Boston 21 years ago sight-unseen. She has loved living in New England since that first day when she said, “this apartment is OLD”. Her hobbies are late-night baking, antiquing, reading books and magazines, sewing, quilting, exploring in New England, [...]

so much cooler online

I am quitting my blog.   Really, I am. I mean it this time. It takes too many hours, checking for comments becomes an obsession and, ultimately, much of what I write is misunderstood.

How to be a good Visit Teachee. Or not.

I have new Visiting Teachers. To my horror, I immediately begin avoiding them. Sis.M, in church: Hey, I’m your new visiting teacher! Me: Great! Sis.M, in church: So, we should get together… Me: yeah, uh-huh. excuse me, gotta find the kids. Instead I found my current, uh, I mean former, visiting teacher. Me: They took [...]

Popcorn Friends

I made a real-life actual new friend this month. And I’m not talking about a book I resonate with, or a new drug for PMS, or some fabulous gal I trade blog commments with (though how I love you, kiss kiss.) No, I actually started hanging out with another mom from the school, someone who [...]

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