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a fear of flying: Steady in Your Goals
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A fear of flying. May 11, 2015. Steady in Your Goals. I made a goal. On this blog, one year ago this last January. If you don't count rewrites, I accomplished that goal by November. If you do, I completed it today. I wrote, rewrote, and polished two novels. One Epic Fantasy and one LDS Contemporary. But right now I can say, these are good books. ANd I know that some day people will read and enjoy them. In the meantime? I don't like to think of my books as products. That's my marketing brain kicking i...
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a fear of flying: Pictures of Pornography: finding NCMO
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A fear of flying. May 18, 2008. Pictures of Pornography: finding NCMO. This week I thought we could talk about one of the hypothesized reasons why LDS men and women struggle with sexual addictions like pornography. When we are single, we can't have any official sex until we marry. That is, if we want to remain in good standing with the church. It is good to save yourself until marriage. But dang it! It is difficult, isn't it? So what does a single, celibate LDS man, for instance, do with all that energy?
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a fear of flying: RE Feminism: Sister Oscarson, Kate Kelly, and Small, Tired Me.
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A fear of flying. Jun 24, 2014. RE Feminism: Sister Oscarson, Kate Kelly, and Small, Tired Me. I’m sad about this Kate Kelly thing. It is hard to be a moderate feminist in the church. Some people tell me I shouldn’t label myself. A long time ago I wrote a post about why I call myself a feminist. I think it’s hard to be a moderate anything. It'd be chaos if everybody decided suddenly they could receive revelation for the church. I feel like this whole thing with Kate Kelly had been very hard and painful t...
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a fear of flying: My Struggles With Priesthood Leaders and Mormon People Part II
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A fear of flying. Dec 16, 2013. My Struggles With Priesthood Leaders and Mormon People Part II. The second thing is that people believe what they read in newspapers. The sad thing is, I would have been OK with depression, porn addiction (not OK, but supportive and wanting to make sure he knew I loved him and was glad he was *finally* sharing with me.) I wasn't what people were making me out to be, and Paul wasn't either. People sympathised with him. I don't know what to do! So I shut up. The thing is, th...
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a fear of flying: Shifting priorities & changing projects--part 2.
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A fear of flying. Jan 26, 2014. Shifting priorities and changing projects- part 2. So I'm continuing to chew over this whole thing where I'm changing projects and focuses. Sorry, I saw no email address on your site through which to contact you. My name is Jonathan Decker and I review Hollywood movies from a Latter-day Saint perspective at www.mormonmovieguy.com. I also have an entertainment column for Meridian Magazine and am a co-host of The KJZZ Movie Show on KJZZ-TV in Utah. Ive had banner ads for the...
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a fear of flying: The Long and Winding Road of Today's Writing Career
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A fear of flying. Apr 13, 2015. The Long and Winding Road of Today's Writing Career. I finally got my epic fantasy in final draft form, and I feel wonderful about it. Submit. Submit. Submit. My goal right now for this project is to do one submission per day. I end up doing about 2 per week instead. Stuff happens. In the end, no matter who wants or doesn't want my stories, I guess the point is, I'm a writer anyway. I write because I love it. That writers nowadays can expect their writing careers to take s...
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a fear of flying: Our Dream Project--we're doing it!
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A fear of flying. Aug 30, 2013. Our Dream Project- we're doing it! Do you all remember when I posted about our confusing, scary and often strange journey to finding. I've been saying prayers now and then that we can get this project off the ground sooner rather than later. Our budgets are pretty tight, and there are a lot of things we'd like to do. Get a real lawn going, for instance. I'm excited because this is also a project that has been a source of joy and exhilaration for Jeff and me to plan. We...
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a fear of flying: stinky laundry piles
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A fear of flying. Sep 10, 2013. A warning, I will be using words in this post I don't generally use. My LDS friends who might read this will probably be like, Sarah. How completely immature and vulgar you're being. I'm dissappointed in you. ANd my non LDS-freinds will be like, Girl, you've got some serious repression issues if you can't even let off one bible swear. Whatever. Which has the best ring to it? Maybe I should be looking at achronyms. no, none of them really work. That was the biggest grief.
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a fear of flying: July 2015
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A fear of flying. Jul 29, 2015. Be OK With Where You Are. I can't really think of a title for this post right now. Maybe by the end I'll think of one that encapsulates all the free-floating, seemingly unrelated ideas swimming around as I write them down and they coalesce and make sense and point to a theme. I'm grateful for writing. It's a good Urim and Thummim for me. How's that for a confusing, oblique Mormon reference? I've also been struggling to forgive another attitude some seem to have. It goe...
