Category Archives: Teens

Reno slide show

We had so much fun.

Sex education, Utah style

Warning: Today’s post includes text directly quoted from A Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers on Teaching Human Sexuality, produced by the Utah State Office of Education. This text reads like a biology textbook, so if you’re offended by that sort of thing, you’ve been warned. Ladies and gentlemen of Utah–may I present your tax [...]

The phone call you don’t want to get

AF: Hello? DS: Mom–this is going to sound weird, but don’t freak out. Yasmine wrecked her car, but I’m okay. AF: Where are you? (sirens getting louder in the background) Is Yasmine okay? Is anybody hurt? Were you wearing your seatbelt? DS: Yasmine’s not hurt, and yes, I was wearing my seatbelt. I think we’re [...]

A new feeling

More Thrums from Spinderella’s Creations; this time Enchanted Forest   I’ve got another bobbin full of n00b yarn; now what do I do? Wrap it on a niddy-noddy into a skein and then pet it? Okey dokey. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The aforementioned new feeling from this post’s title is hard to describe. [...]