Corndogs + Avocados

I love the following quote from President Lorenzo Snow that appears on p.69 of the August Ensign. The idea that some skills, talents, gifts, abilities do not surface until you have passed through the type of experience that would draw them out makes a lot of sense to me. It helps me see [...]

In early August Mom and I went to the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco for the Women Impressionists exhibit. It was wonderful! If you have a chance, it is well worth the visit. Click on any of the images below to see them larger. (Sorry, no shots of the [...]

I’m at the Embarcadero waiting for my bus and Tibetan flags are everywhere. People are waving them and wearing them draped around their shoulders. The Olympic torch comes through San Francisco today and local Tibetans are out en masse to protest human rights abuses in their former homeland.
Cops are on every corner.
Many shirts say [...]