• Dear Mom - Hot Off The Presses - Notty Problems: Even Leaving Doesn't Solve Them - Only in Utah... - Politics, Schmolitics

    When Your Mom Gets Baptized Into Some Weird Church After She Dies

    It would piss you off, right? I know it would really make me angry if that happened to my mom, but I can’t check because the information is hidden behind a registration wall AND a “member in good standing/temple recommend number” wall. Because when she was alive, she was really horrified by the idea that everyone in her family had been baptized against their will, after they died, and that someday she would, too. Well, it’s apparently happened to President Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. I think it’s a terrible breach of spiritual protocol, the church’s own supposedly “hard and…

  • Episcopal - Hot Off The Presses - Only in Utah...

    Rowland Hall-St Marks Had A Marketing Problem

    The problem was the “saint” in the name, as Utah is the state of the Saints. The Salt Lake private school has changed its name so that it will seem less parochial sounding and easier to market to local families looking for an educational alternative. Rolly: A sign of the times? – Salt Lake Tribune Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s School has been a prominent fixture in Utah education for about 130 years. Founded by the Episcopal Church, the school has proudly boasted on uniforms, school communications and signs its motto: “Nihil Longus Deo” Never Far from God. Until now. The school…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Today on Mom’s Desk Calendar

    Happy Birthday, Timmy Mom had this little desk calendar for years; she put notes and reminders on special days. Today is my sister Timmy’s birthday, and the motto for today is "Cultivate good habits, the bad ones all grow wild." Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Today on Mom’s Desk Calendar By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 May ’09, 6.54pm CDT PST