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Hello and happy fall! I had to look at my calendar to remember what I did this week, and oh yeah, I was studying – ha! I had a paper due on Tuesday, and I’ve been working on several other papers as well. LOTS of reading and self-reflection and writing and more reading. I would […]
…if you ask me what my favorite scripture is it will be whichever one the Holy Ghost has brought to my remembrance for what I need right now…
When my kids were worried about moving up a grade to a new school, I always told them that high school was better than middle school and that college was better than high school, and now I’m discovering that graduate school is better than college! Yes, I have taken the long and winding road to […]
Learning about my mom’s uncle, Cedric Foster Coleman, officer on the USS Indianapolis during WWII.
When I was growing up, my mother would often say: The only thing you can depend on is change. I have found that to be true in my life. By the time our family arrived in Colorado, I had moved more than 20 times throughout my life if I counted accurately. Sometimes I was sad; […]
Sorting, donating, selling, cleaning, and packing is exhausting! I knew this from previous moving experiences and was dreading it. Which is why I procrastinated as long as possible and enjoyed every moment I could spend with loved ones. I feel such a deep sense of gratitude to all the many friends who helped me celebrate […]
When Mom and I were in Paris, we had the opportunity to visit a 770-year-old cathedral called Sainte-Chapelle, that has recently been restored. The combined effects of centuries of grime, candle soot, pollution, and weather on the windows had been painstakingly cleaned and repaired. These photos show a little bit of the beauty and prompted my thoughts […]
Paris… how I loved it! Mom and I had such a delightful time and enjoyed being able to explore the city as if we lived there. Our routine was to wake up to this view… Walk around the corner to the local patisserie and pick up breakfast to go… then hop on the bus or the […]
This past Sunday in our church’s women’s Relief Society class, we were asked, ‘What dreams do you have for yourself?’ I honestly couldn’t think of anything when the teacher called on me to share my thoughts, so I replied that I had many dreams. But I was bothered by the question and by my answer […]
I think it is no coincidence that on March 4th, I received my acceptance to Harvard’s Graduate School of Education – symbolic! The email with the link to the acceptance letter was actually sent on March 3rd, but I didn’t get it until Saturday night. Then I forgot my password and tried to reset it, […]