emerging from the ashes

This April marks my three year anniversary of my mental break from the Mormon church. At the beginning of April, 2005, I had a near panic a...

Note to self: watch youtube videos before letting my son watch them. You'd think a simple Star Wars spoof would be pretty innocent, rig...

Continued from baptisms for the dead, part 1 ... The interview went well enough. I dressed up in my Sunday clothes, a dress I hated. But t...

I was pleased to find this was an easy Easter for me. Easier, that is, than the other Easters I've gone through since losing my faith. ...

Another story from Growing up Mormon: I was twelve years old, finally in young women’s and finally old enough to go to the Provo temple to d...

I started reading Bushman's Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling this weekend. Why? Because I want to torture myself? Actually, it's mo...

If you've been reading my blog for a few months, you'll know that last time I was in Utah was for Thanksgiving. On that trip, I had...

I've been reading this fabulous book, eat, pray, love , by Elizabeth Gilbert. You've likely heard of it or at least seen it around,...

I haven't had much to write lately, besides being a bit bogged down by some virus. I suppose it's a good thing for me that I don...

I was updating my list of "Further Reading" books, and realized a couple books I had on there previously were dropped when I switc...