On Dr. Seuss and Failing
So, I’d never eat these on a boat, with a goat, on a train, in the rain, or pretty much anywhere. But I still learned something cool.
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Not a legend but the name was fun. This is just the random stuff I've thought about and want to remember. If you find it useful, hurray! If not, you'll know me better anyway.
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Fairy Tale Endings
Originally posted as a comment on Facebook, I figured I’d save these thoughts here where I can find them again easily: Perfect really is relative, it’s true, but I’m also thinking the perfect romantic relationship does not exist. I don’t think life’s set up that way. I sort of think you make your expectations and […]
MoreRomans 8: A scripture that hit the spot
I’ll be honest. The kids and I struggled with this chapter last night before throwing in the towel halfway through. Paul is awesome, but the format of the arguments over the past few chapters has been difficult to explain, verse-by-verse or concept by concept, to the kids. We gave it another go together tonight, though, […]
MoreDieter F. Uchtdorf’s talk on Forget-me-nots
(If you’re looking for the talk itself, you can find it here.) I went into Women’s conference today praying for some help, as I’m really struggling to get some things right lately, from dating, to making dinner, to responsive web design. And I’m really, really ridiculously tired all the time. I don’t know whether it’s […]
MoreMy mother does not approve.
They just called to wish my girl a happy birthday. The kids were playing video games and didn’t really feel like talking much beyond the hellos and why thank yous, so I got on the phone. I was still working on writing all of this up, but I was excited about it. And I tend […]
MoreRethinking my Resumé
I haven’t really updated my resume since 2002 when a professional writer wrote some descriptions for me in exchange for some work. At that time, I didn’t feel like the “action phrases” really portrayed the value I would bring a company. They sounded fairly bombastic to me, but necessary anyway as far as I knew. […]
MoreOn being a mom
I had a random thought this morning just after I dropped my kids off at school. Mary is going to trip. She’s never fallen on her way in before, but I parked the car anyway, and surely enough I was tending her scraped knees a few seconds later. What a sweet moment that was. Of […]
MoreAs I have loved you…
I was thinking about this scripture (and the song we sing about it.) Someone once told me that to love one another as Christ loves us, we’ve got to consider a each person’s potential and love them for that, and they will change. The implication: if you can love someone’s potential enough, they’ll eventually grow […]
MoreNo, this is not perfect
Mary tried to draw a butterfly the other morning. Well, she drew several, but by noon she’d broken down in tears, frustrated that she couldn’t draw the perfect creature she saw in her mind. “What you see as imperfections just make the pictures all the more perfect to me, Mary. And the more you draw, […]
MoreResolution for 2010
This year, I resolve to do unto myself what I would have myself do unto others. Wait… what?
MoreSloth vs Perfectionism
I had an interesting little twitter conversation on laziness and perfectionism this morning. Twitter is a challenge for long-winded people like me, but the essence of the conversation is that a friend had said that the Sloth in her wouldn’t start the day’s projects because she couldn’t figure out where best to start. To me […]
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Legend of Velda 