Praying for “moisture”
California has been in the grip of a huge drought for quite some time now, and today being the first Sunday of the month, a.k.a. "Fast Sunday," Mormons are being asked to fast and pray that the drought...
View ArticleI will remember this my whole life long
[This is my annual diary in remembrance of this day in 1963.]I was in second grade at Limerick Avenue Elementary School in Canoga Park, California (a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley)....
View ArticleI'm done with the Mormon church
Following the Mormon Church's announcement of its new policy, that the children of gay parents cannot be blessed nor baptized (until they are 18 and renounce their parents' "wicked ways"), and that...
View ArticleThe Pootie Queen has gone over the Rainbow Bridge
I am very sorry to let you all know that Tricia Wyse, a.k.a. the Pootie Queen, died this morning, apparently from a heart attack (others will doubtless provide more details). I know I am far from the...
View ArticleTen years ago today: In memory of “Matt”
Ten years ago I published a lengthy diary on the first anniversary of the death of my then-15-year-old nephew. In his honor and memory, I am publishing the same diary, with only a few edits,...
View ArticleReporting in after… a very long time
UPDATE: I removed the paragraph mentioning “silver linings,” because it appears that at least the part about dolphins being seen in Venetian canals is not true, per National Geographic. (Air quality in...
View ArticleMaybe I'm not cut out to be a god
NB: Be prepared to wade through a fair bit of Mormon stuff; hopefully this will be worth your time. At the very least, you might end up with some questions to ask of any missionaries who might cross...
View ArticleA brief reflection on June 2022's French legislative election
I write this as some Americans have already headed off to their polling places to vote, and quite honestly, the one thing I know I’m going to do this evening at bedtime is take a sleeping pill. I don’t...
View ArticleA mast year and a newly dark village
From 2010 to 2020, my husband and I lived a significant part of each year in Berlin. And from fall 2015 through 2019, I sang first soprano with the Berliner Konzert Chor. (If you click on “View Image”...
View ArticleA sudden move back Stateside
In February 2001, our Boston-based family took a trip to Turkey and stopped in Grenoble on the way back so Mr. Mo could interview for a job there in the vallée du Grésivaudan — France’s equivalent of...
View ArticleA new home amid the unhoused in Seattle
Although partially occluded by the tall buildings across the street, the view of the Seattle harbor area from our apartment in the Belltown neighborhood is a source of endless fascination, especially...
View ArticleHeading back to France tonight… er, no, but soon
I was originally going to fly back to France from Seattle tonight in order to start dealing with our house and our stuff, but my flight on Condor was supposed to land in Frankfurt tomorrow (Friday the...
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