by Janiel Miller | May 24, 2011 | for Fun
When we lived in Indiana—waaaay back during the Cretaceous Period when my husband was in graduate school and I was a marketing rep for WordPerfect Corporation—we sublet our basement to LDS missionaries. The people before us had had an open door policy and let the...
by Janiel Miller | Mar 25, 2011 | for Love
I was invisible once. For a long time. And I couldn't figure out how I got that way. I noticed it first when I moved back to the States from Germany, and the ward I was in for the first five months never bothered to learn my name. For five months the young women in...
by Janiel Miller | Feb 10, 2011 | for Mind
When I create my world, chocolate will be dietetic, the seasons will be: three months of fall, four months of spring, one month of winter (December), and four months of enough money to travel around the world and hit whatever season I want. Also, there will be no PMS,...
by Janiel Miller | Apr 11, 2010 | for Mind
Ahhh. I love a good old comfy paradigm, don't you? The way it just slips right over your shoulders, warming the cockles of your heart, sending waves of familiarity and validation up to your brain. It's like a big ol' mug of hot chocolate with a scoop of mint chocolate...
by Janiel Miller | Mar 18, 2010 | for Spirit
The thing is, though, they will. And what are you going to do when you get poked in the patootie? I can tell you what I do: I scream and yell, and chuck a colossal conniption. I tell God what He needs to do to remedy my situation. Then I sit and wait for Him to...
