by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 15, 2008 | Design Your Own House, for Home
We are selective green builders, being as environmentally conscious as reason allows. While it won't be in the original build, eventually we'd like to fully implement a solar power system. With the back of our home facing south, we've got a great spot for panels...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 15, 2008 | Design Your Own House, for Home, for Money
We've long been wanting to build an eco-friendly home. It's all the rage. It's cool. It's hip. But that has nothing to do with it. If I really wanted to be hip, I'd get rid of the peg-legged acid-washed high-waisted jeans in my closet. And stop using the word...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 5, 2008 | for Home
Whenever we are building, we make it a habit to attend the Parade of Homes in both Utah and Salt Lake counties. I can't get enough of it. Sam was overdosed about three years back. But it was at the Parade that we made a remarkable discovery. Remarkable, at least, for...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 23, 2007 | for Good, for Home
Although she never said it out loud, I could tell my mother did not approve of soap operas. I suppose she didn't want to denigrate most of the other moms I knew who watched them, you know, while ironing and doing laundry…really slowly. Still, there was this scrunchy...
by Kathy Green | Sep 12, 2006 | for Home
Reading Moving On, by Sarah Ban Breathnach, I encountered the phrase “self-sloth.” It stung like a wasp. I am a chick in quicksand compared to the Girl in a Whirl. I wonder if, for every LDS mother who is overworked, stressed, and fanatically attempting to...
by Tracy Keeney | Sep 23, 2003 | Circle of Sisters, for Home
Nikki from Utah, writes: When I found out that Viacom was canceling the Martha Stewart television program, I was very dismayed. She has inspired me so much over the years and I have thoroughly enjoyed her show and so have my children. Single-handedly she made it...
