I’m amazed and extremely happy that Elizabeth Smart was found safely and returned to her family, an astonishing 9 months after her abduction.
I asked this question 9 months ago, and I still wonder today: the media enjoys pointing out that the Smarts live in a $1.2 million house, in an “affluent area” of Salt Lake City, with over 6,000 square feet of space. Why in the world did Elizabeth and her sister Mary Katherine share a bedroom?
Another thing I’ve noticed on a few blogs is something called “The Friday Five” – five questions every Friday for blog writers. I’ll give it a try for a while: 1. What was the last TV show [more...]
How does one express solidarity with the people of London without using rhetoric, without politics, and without being maudlin? I love London and its people, and I as a long time Anglophile, I feel a deep sense of [more...]
It just occured to me that if I continue waking and sleeping on Eastern Daylight Time – I still haven’t adjusted to the end of Daylight Savings Time – I will be waking at 3:30am and falling asleep at [more...]
They’re Mormons. That means at least 12 kids.