Posted on Wednesday, 3rd March 2010 by chrisjones
This is my Mother’s house. The one she grew up in, the one she shared with her brother and sisters, the one her parents lived in for 50 years.
As of today, it’s not theirs any more.
Mom has been gone from that place for 45 years, and her parents essentially died there a few years back, [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 5th May 2009 by chrisjones
I added Shawnie Romney Tull as a friend on Facebook today.
She died last Friday night.
I grew up about 2 minutes from her house in Springfield, Virginia. Barry and Alita, her parents, were good friends of my parents - there was an extremely good group of adults in that area, and many of them are friends [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 5th April 2009 by chrisjones
I love General Conference. I didn’t when I was a kid, because really, who is excited as a 5-year-old, or even a 15-year-old, to have their normal 3 hours of church expanded to 10 hours stretching across an entire weekend?
But I love it now. I love it for several reasons. It makes me better. It [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 26th February 2009 by chrisjones
A fellow on Cougarboard, one of my favorite hangouts, asks why so many of his brethren on the site seem to have seen Slumdog Millionaire, which is an R-rated movie. For those not in the know, LDS (Mormons) have been admonished not to go see movies rated R. It’s not a commandment. But it is [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 30th October 2008 by chrisjones
I won’t tell you how old she is, not because she’s self-conscious about it, but because it doesn’t matter. What she is and who she is has nothing to do with her age.
I remember a lot about her when I was growing up. I remember her cutting my sandwiches into triangles (tuna fish! Mmmmm!). I [...]
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