Molly Mormon Democrat

This week I got to spend a day in a 2nd grade classroom volunteering with a local financial literacy non-profit. Including this year, I...

If I've learned anything about myself over the past few years of blogging, it's if I don't blog about something soon after it h...

Art can be artificial - a flat 2-D rendering that oversimplifies the complexities of life.  But art can also be a prism through which we st...

As I drove from St. George, Utah to Salt Lake City one October evening a couple years ago, I encountered a freak storm of sleet, rain, and ...

So this little thought ran through my head as I've been enjoying the autumnal amazingness.  Sometimes you will look at a tree throughou...

Without reserve, I do hereby declare that my favorite jurisdiction* in the union of states known as The United States of America is...Virgi...

Today I got to look out over this: Thomas Jefferson's beautiful Monticello on a gorgeous day! You should be very very jealous.  I ...

And by Mother, I mean Mother Earth.  Yesterday was Earth Day, in case you missed it. Google's 2012 Earth Day Doodle I'm a big...

Yep, today is solstice, which is the shortest  day of the year.  This means this is the day with the least light - so from here on out, mor...

I'm going to share with you some pictures from that series-of-tubes known as the interwebs (or is it internets?). Click on the links to...

When I lived in California, there was a bike path that wound through the town we lived in.  On this bike path was a tunnel, and it was kin...

Isn't funny that, when you are thinking about a topic, you start to see it everywhere?  Such is light! I like this poem by the Persia...

So I was going to throw a bunch of awesome facts about this subject at you, but I have reached the end of the day much faster than anticipa...

A little Christmas before-and-after! Before (a blank canvas): During: After: I love Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ...

Maybe it's time to do a Christmas post, as this series of posts about light is ostensibly inspired by Christmas.  This year I decided t...

In Middle School and High School, I listened to a lot of Mary Chapin Carpenter music. Generally I don't like country music, but most o...

I was thinking about this poem today: Hyacinths to Feed the Soul If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And from thy slender store two...

Today we got slammed with what has variously been described as a "Snowpocolapse" "Shopper-stopper" or "Obamasnow...

For whatever reason, I feel like I've heard the Christmas carol "Silent Night" a lot during this Christmas season. Which I l...

There are many things I love about my mom, and one of those things is that she love Christmas, and decorating for it (at last count, we h...