Title: The Lace Makers of GlenmaraAuthor: Heather BarbieriPages: 288 I don’t know why book reviews always seem to make me confess something, but here goes another one: I confess that I never–never!–read any book unless it’s a classic/on a book list/a bestseller/or highly recommended by someone close to me. Which is why I was so surprised …
Bummer
I’m so bummed out. We had big plans to go home to Bountiful this Friday night after work and spend a leisurely long weekend full of food, fireworks, and family. Matt told me yesterday that he has to work up here on Saturday night, meaning that we’ll probably have to miss (or just be very …
Weekly Writing – The Man Behind the Photograph
Writing Prompt: Choose a favorite photo. Describe the scene/person/story behind it. We hopped off the pick-up truck, releasing our fingers from the iron bars that had been caging us in and letting our mary janes thump as they hit the dusty ground. The jungle around us throbbed with the ceaseless pulse of lurking wildlife–insects that …
Photo Walk – Colors
Because our last photo walk theme of trying to find all the colors of the rainbow didn’t work out so hot (our fault for trying before the spring had fully come), we decided to give it another whirl today. Happy Sabbath!
Here’s What’s Cooking…Berry-Cream Cookie Snaps
Since we had all the strawberries from our Bountiful Basket to use up and plenty of cream cheese on hand, we decided to make these cute little cookie snaps one night around ten (why we always start cooking so late is beyond me). Not only did these snaps turn out creamily-delicious, they also look a …
Change It Up – Angel’s Landing
This is the story of how I almost got rabies on our honeymoon and how my pride was wounded by a mountain and then built up again by some Germans. This, my friends, is the story of how I took on Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park. If you look closely at the above photo, …
New Look
As you can all see, I’ve started to create a new look for my blog, using the original URL name for my new title. When I originally created this blog a few years ago, I did so after delving into a book that my Dad recommended to me called The Day I Became an Autodidact. …
Weekly Writing – 3 Changes
Remember this post from earlier this year where I said that I wanted to try out a different writing prompt every week? Or this post where I said I was trying to be more creative in my journal writing? Well, I can confidently say that I’ve been failing miserably at both. It’s good to be …