This week's sporkful

My first memories of Jeopardy are from when I was working at K-mart. I started my junior year, and worked there until a few months after hig...

In trying to think of those people whom I know read my blog upon occasion, this is old news—it is pretty well known now that I appeared on J...

I was silly to think that I could start posting regularly again while Mom was in recovery. Yes, it has been better than last time. I am taki...

Today is the first day of school, which does not have a lot of meaning in my household, but it seemed like a good place to restart. More to ...

I just lapped myself in the Book of Mormon. My personal reading Saturday night ended in Alma 43, and our family reading on Sunday did too. G...

This is not a treatise on human prayer, though that would be a worthy topic. This is specifically about our family prayer--how we got starte...

Last year I waxed poetic a bit about picking blackberries, but that is not my only meditative horticultural pursuit. The truth is, we have s...

I don't know that anything that is left is quite as interesting. For New Year's we had a friend visiting, and it was a ridiculously ...

This is a story about making contact, and it going really well. One hardship for my sister Julie is never getting enough Christmas music of ...

The sadness over losing a friend did not mean Christmas was awful. Mom being in the hospital for most of that week was stressful, as was fin...

For Christmas, there are actually three potential topics. Two of them are good things, and one is sad, and it is probably the least Christma...

At one point, I really thought three to five of us were going to be doing the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day. It's an activity that I c...

My last posting before the gap was October 4th, and then things started getting crazy and overwhelming, followed by maddening and depressing...

Since we have spent some time talking about music, and I wanted to go over various holidays that occurred during that last, vast, blogging g...

I first heard of the song "Friday" long before I actually heard it, and while I was amazed at how bad the lyrics seemed, based on ...

I have been holding off on this one because I just know that I will forget to mention some great concert, and remember it shortly after post...

Sometimes you go hoping for a good show and getting disappointed, but sometimes you know that you just shouldn't go in the first place. ...

With the recent karaoke thread kind of bringing us back to music, I thought this might be a good time to get back to the concert series. Bac...

In my last I gave you my thoughts on karaoke, but last night involved pool too. (If anyone is wondering, I did “Falling for the First Time”....

I'm supposed to do karaoke tomorrow night. Well, I will be at the place for sure, because I organized it. The "supposed to" pa...