smokingpen | June 28, 2009
As I’ve state before, I have this mental list of people that when I hear a news story about them I have to ask myself, “What, he (or she) is not dead?” I can give a quick list of a few people – though I won’t – that fall into that list. However, this week, [...]
smokingpen | April 20, 2009
Well, I finally (last night) listened to (almost) the entirety of the LDS General Conference that was broadcast a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t listen/watch it when it was happening because a) the cable company around here doesn’t carry it; and b) I couldn’t be bothered with my sleep/awake schedule. Well, and c) I [...]
smokingpen | March 4, 2009
I am not certain what is going on in my life. I talk to Erin and she wants to know what is happening. All I can say is, “I don’t know and I don’t know how to fix it.” When I speak to my mother she asks if everything is all right and I tell [...]
smokingpen | January 15, 2009
I think it is time to come clean about the job search. The cleanliness of the situation is not that I am searching or have (or haven’t) been for more than six months, but that I am still unemployed and frustrated by it. Why? Well, I went back to school in order to make myself [...]
smokingpen | January 12, 2009
Last week I felt the need to go to the temple. For those who are not LDS, the temple is a place where we, as active and worthy members of the LDS faith can go and get outside of the influence of the world. Because we believe in life after death, the work that is [...]
smokingpen | December 4, 2008
It occurred to me earlier that we, as a people, don’t know a lot of things. I am of the opinion that the way in which religion is practiced in the United States, more puritan than whatever, is actually a rather odd way to practice religion and when we look at dynamic religious figures, often [...]
smokingpen | December 2, 2008
I think our lives are filled with defining moments. Those are the moments that change us whether we want them to or not. In Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a book I am writing a final essay on for one of my classes, it would appear that one of her defining moments, at least [...]
smokingpen | December 1, 2008
Today is December 1, 2008. The reason this is important is because on December 19, 2008, the day after, and not many hours after, my little family and I will be in a truck (along with Erin’s auntie and her brother) and driving due east. At the moment, and after a discussion with my parents, [...]
