by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 11, 2012 | for Money
Years ago, Sam and I helped a couple dig out of a financial mess. They came to our apartment and, one bit of data at a time, entered all the transactions they ‘d made in the past year. Why did we have them do this? To show their spending habits and patterns. Not...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 11, 2012 | for Home, for Spirit
Tanya Edwards is the winner of the giveaway! She has been notified. 🙂 As far as Mormon arts are concerned, we're not always on the cutting edge. We've had our own version of Saturday's Warrior and Charly to live down. But there are some beautiful works of art...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 10, 2012 | for Fun
While in the middle of frantic Christmas preparations, myriad performances for the school kids (musical theater, orchestra, ballroom), finals week for the three college kids, planning a three-week health extravaganza, and all manner of insanity—including preparing a...
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 27, 2012 | for Fun
I'm not sure when it happened. But one day a few years ago I really stopped needing presents. For Christmas I would always ask for “peace and harmony”—and it drove the kids to distraction. But that's really what I wanted. They preferred to give me...
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 18, 2012 | for Good, for Money
Notice to family and friends: I plan to do the bulk of my holiday shopping at Walmart this year. This is in protest of idiotic Walmart employees who claim Walmart doesn't pay them enough or give them enough hours…but are too lazy or unqualified to look elsewhere for a...
