I just woke up after going to bed before dark. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I woke up and felt the stitches in the side of my head and remembered it wasn’t a dream. I was in the hospital.

Last night after going to bed I was trying to relax and see with my eyes shut. The room lit up bright and I opened my eyes and my bedroom was dark. I got up out of bed and looked around the house. Every door that I had shut before was open. I heard a noise like a scamper but when I went outside it was totally quiet. I walked into the field behind my house. When the ground started to vibrate under my feet I just started running. That’s the last thing I remember.

Dale says he found me hung up on his barbwire fence.

My head hurts. My hands are shaking and I feel dizzy and like I might throw up. I don’t know if it’s the concussion or what. Dale says I need some kind of counseling. I’m scared. I don’t know what’s happening to me.

Yesterday, I saw a bumper sticker reading, “My daughter was killed by a drunk driver.” (more…)

The point of this post is that it’s none of your business what I am. Banner of Heaven has recently treated its readers to several public discussions of very private matters. I don’t intend any specific criticism of my co-bloggers (<cough> Aaron and Miranda) but I’d like our readers to know that not everyone on this blog sits around thinking “How can I rile people up today,” or “How can I further sensationalize people’s personal lives.” I don’t care what you are—straight, gay, bi, swinger, self-lover, asexual, hell, you can be into handcuffs and trapezes—I don’t want to hear about it. I’ll go one up on that—I think it’s in bad taste. (more…)

Sorry it’s been awhile since my last post; I started a new post on Friday, hoping to post on Monday for the 4th, but things didn’t work out as planned and I lost my draft.

Also, I lost my job. (more…)

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about weddings. I finished the wedding cake I made for a younger friend (and I feel much better about it now, thank you for the supportive words!). As I was making it I remembered the cake I made for my own wedding several years ago. It was ugly. (more…)

Following is another short story that I wrote that I’d like to share with the bloggernacle:

“Boring year for the Brownsteins,” Eve thought to herself as the line at the package store got shorter. (more…)

SEPTIMUS H CONFIRMED LIVING AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND
E-mail assures concerned friends and co-bloggers that the man alone has not left us bereft. (more…)

Thanks to the crew here at BoH for an invite to guest blog for a week or two. Mormon Inquiry keeps me busy enough, but it’s hard to turn down an invitation. Here’s my first topic: The Bloggernacle seems to sport more than its share of group blogs and guest posters. What explains this propensity of online Mormons to form group blogs? I have a few ideas. (more…)

I am no philosopher, but I remember from my History of Civ class that Hayek taught about how an open market was the best way to lead to efficient allocation of resources. Now that I have no job, I am better able to think about how well the market works.

And now, unfortunately, I’m also able to think about how well the Church works. You see, I just got released. (more…)

Yesterday afternoon I went to a local mental health center for an assessment interview. (more…)

I’ll be living with my mother again for the first time since high school. No, I’m not leaving my husband to move back in with my mom. This time, she’ll be living under my roof. (more…)

I switched from Coke Classic to Diet Coke way back in college. Now that Coca-Cola has released a new diet cola, I’ve got a lot to say about it. Since I sometimes envy the light-heartedness of my co-bloggers’ posts, I’m going to say it here:

Andy Warhol is credited with saying, “In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” He was wrong. He should have said, “In the future, there will be no diet soft drinks.” (more…)

I’ve been surveying BoH posts to try and figure out what, as a guest blogger, I should post about next. I’ve decided that true confessions play well here, so here goes (please don’t tell): I sometimes read the articles at Meridian Magazine. Perhaps if I unburden myself a bit, I can get over this annoying habit … (more…)

Again, my apologies for not having posted a little more regularly — with the job situation, and now the Church situation, I am finding it difficult to motivate myself to get up and blog. I am now faced with yet another life-altering event, which isn’t necessarily bad news, but makes me feel bad nonetheless.

What do you do when someone’s happiness makes you feel bad inside? (more…)

It’s not what you think it is. No boogers. This is just the most dorky thing I did in high school. (more…)

At what point, if ever, do you admit to friends, families and aquaintances that you blog? (more…)

I don’t even know why I answer my door anymore. I probably should stop all together, but if I did I wouldn’t have anything to post about and then where would I be? (more…)

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. This is me if I was a Dungeons & Dragons character. (more…)

In my Secondary Education post I left out one branch of learning. Science. Why did I leave out Science in explaining why the various other kinds of learning I discussed will not be needed in eternity. Well because it seems to be more closely related to God’s created works. It seems at first like something that will actually be useful in eternity. To create worlds without number. So I felt good about this when taking science and engineering classes. Which I had to take a few. Because construction management is in the College of Engineering. I liked the thought of God being the great Architecht and Engineer of the universe. (more…)

Here’s the email that I received in my mailbag: (more…)

I know I’ve posted too much this week, but yesterday was one of the worst days of my life. The sisters came back but I didn’t even go to the door this time. I was plastered to the couch lying still, hiding, thinking I might die. (more…)

One word: Yuck.