Doris Day and David Niven “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies”
I love this film, Doris does a great job playing a mom of four boys. I have four boys (and 1...
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Liberal Media Goes to Extremes to Slam Motherhood
This flashy trashy cover of Time Magazine — is very demeaning to women who choose motherhood. The eye-catching photo of a young mother, breast exposed, feeding her three year old is meant to startle. And it does. It is...
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God and Science work together to create this earth
If you find a surfboard on the beach, you assume that a surfer has passed this way, not that the...
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Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies
Doris Day stars with Rock Hudson in the 1960s romantic comedy, Send Me No Flowers. She loved...
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Do Mormons Believe that Jesus and Lucifer are Brothers?
Mormons believe, as did early Christians, that our Father in Heaven is the Father of all...
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What do Mormons believe about hell?
Protestors stood across the street from the Mormon Conference Center shouting Mormons are going to...
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My Mormon Underwear
I’ve wanted to write about the Mormon garment. I don’t call them my Mormon underwear...
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What’s it Like to be a Mormon Woman
Many believe that Mormon women are slighted. From my perspective, I have plenty of power and...
Read MoreWorking on my masters
I’m avoiding my work today. I don’t know why I decided to go for my masters in education. I’m not even a credentialed teacher. My bachelors is in biochem; I started graduate school in the 80s in nutrition &...
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Suffering is a Harsh Reality
This morning I was reading about the hours after Christ’s death — the cataclysmic...
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Happy Trials
In LDS Conference yesterday, President Eyring addressed what I know to be true, however difficult...
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Write it Down Before it’s Gone
Now, granted, some words spoken should never have left my lips. But I understand the value of...
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Why Mormons baptize their dead ancestors
Granted, baptisms for those who are deceased sounds kind of deranged — like a...
Read MoreHow to apply false eyelashes when you’re over 50
I’m a big fan of false eyelashes. I would never have guessed this. Especially, since I grew up in the age of “natural beauty” and less-is-more. But, the natural beauty of the fifties is not the same as the...
Read MoreMormons were against slavery in 1830s
Anti-Mormon sentiments are nothing new to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In 1836 their anti-slavery position put them at odds with Missouri. Joseph Smith was an abolitionist. His Presidential...
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The Grass is Greener Movie
The Grass is Greener is a 1960 film starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum. It was...
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Doris Day in Calamity Jane
Doris Day said that this was one of her favorite musicals. She loved playing the tomboy, Calamity...
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Homemade Beeswax Body Balm
I love this recipe. You make it in a Mason jar, and there’s no mess. Someone asked me for a...
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1960s bathrooms
I’ve never seen a bathtub like this, except in my childhood home. Yep, it’s the same...
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