Ashley Archive

  • Leaving The Paved Road

    Posted on September 28, 2012 | 2 Comments
    I have a seemingly insignificant memory from my early teenage years of walking through the grocery store and spying the front cover of TEEN magazine with Lindsay Lohan on the front cover.   I remember the feeling of inferiority that followed and the inner monologue […]

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  • A Record Keeping People

    Posted on September 12, 2012 | 3 Comments
    For me, writing both requires that I feel centered within myself as well as helps me to get to that centered place. It's almost a form of meditation.

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  • Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: Afraid to Pray?

    Posted on July 13, 2012 | 6 Comments
    I only know that I wasn't strong enough to let the lamplight keep glowing, tiny as it was. I snuffed it out.

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  • Sunday Takes a Mallet to My Head

    Posted on May 4, 2012 | 18 Comments
    Usually a very confident person, I avoided their eyes, smiled at their foreheads, and slunk behind the piano. The chorister introduced two visitors and announced that we would be singing a welcome song. I didn't hear her, as my thoughts were too focused on my failure. "Sister," she said sweetly, "we're singing a Welcome Song."

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  • Mormon Mommy Meets Eat, Pray, Love

    Posted on March 14, 2011 | 9 Comments
    In the spirit of wayfaring, Ashley joins us today with the kind of travelogue I’d love to hear in testimony meeting.  I’m the one with my mouth open wide and feet sitting in a pool of flesh-sucking fish, what Southeast Asians term a “fish spa.” […]

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