I have a secret love of art and art history. I took a few art history classes in college, and I’ve loved learning about the subject ever since. I love all the different periods and styles of art and how every painting tells a story. I love looking at a beautiful piece of art and … Read more
The day after Thanksgiving (AKA Black Friday) is probably one of my favorite days of the year. Call me crazy, but I love the adventure of running through a store alongside a billion other greedy people to get to the sheets first!Last year I was pregnant and had spent Wednesday in the hospital because of … Read more
This week’s “Happy Thought” is a poem that I memorized a while ago. I love memorizing poems and quotes for a few reasons. Memorizing makes me feel like my brain is going to last longer and I also like to be able to think about happy and uplifting things when there’s nothing else to think … Read more
This summer I was visiting my sister in Seattle and her husband came home on Saturday morning with a box full of treasures, all for only $1. How is that possible, I wanted to know. Two simple words: Garage sale.I know it can be kind of embarrassing to rifle through other people’s junk and actually … Read more
One of my favorite books that brings back lots of happy childhood memories is The Story of Chinaman’s Hat,” by Dean Howell. It’s the story of how the Hawaiian island, called Chinaman’s Hat, came to be. My grandma used to read this book to me all the time. It is not only a great story … Read more
Before we had kids, my husband and I decided that we wanted to be very selective about the movies our family both viewed and owned. We decided that we only wanted to own movies that are family friendly and appropriate for most everyone. We feel that sexual content is the most offensive and inappropriate, so … Read more
If you’ve learned anything about me so far, it should be that I love reading and books. Further evidence of this is demonstrated in this morning’s happenings. My husband and I woke up bright and early to get up to the Salt Lake City Library for a book sale. Second only to Black Friday, library … Read more
My husband’s grandmother is in the process of dying, and because of this I wanted to write a post advocating hospice and palliative care. Palliative care focuses on making a sick person as comfortable as possible and reducing their symptoms and pain. Hospice is a palliative care program. For my husband’s grandma, a hospice nurse … Read more
This poem is the perfect description of what books are to me. Books are keys to wisdom’s treasure; Books are gates to lands of pleasure; Books are paths that upward lead; Books are friends. Come, let us read. Emilie Poulsson In my last semester of college I took a calligraphy class and I actually used … Read more
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie; Alison Jackson (Thanksgiving) Little Miss Spider: A Christmas Wish; David Kirk (Christmas)