One of my favorite parts of my job as an academic librarian is when I get the chance to sit in on classes and learn a little. (If I could go to classes all day every day, I probably would.) Today, …

I got knocked out this week by illness, which you’d think would mean I’d have had a ton of time to watch movies. Sadly, it wasn’t that kind of sickness. It was more along the line…

I’ve largely stayed out of political posts for the last while, not because I haven’t had thoughts about what’s happening in the world (I’ve had plenty), but more because (as…

Hello hello hello! ♡ My companion Sister Kruger got her visa!! So we will (hopefully) get to fly to Prague together!! Not much to report on so instead here is a list of highlights Are you all so hy…

First, thank you all for the kind birthday wishes yesterday. I took the day off from work and went to the local fair with my family in the evening. Michaela had tons of fun riding all the rides tha…

It’s been a while since I popped in to update you all on various writing efforts I’ve got underway. No time like the present, right? I had a bit of a streak (couple of weeks) where I wa…

Ahoj všetci!!!! Well another week in eternity. Don’t get me wrong I am still having SO much fun but dang bro when are my travel plans gonna come in. So far just Starši Tippets has his sooo we…

So, back in ye olden days, a classic tactic to manage how many complaints or requests a department received was to just make sure any requests had to come in with a filled-out form. The very act of…

It was a super busy week for me this past week. I’ve been on writing deadline, and that basically meant any time I wasn’t working, I was at home sitting down revising. And so I haven&#8…

Hello my lovely citizens and farmingtons, Boom three hip hip hoorays for the fact we only have 3 weeks left!!! I fear the elders hit their low on Saturday when BYU had their first football game and…

This was a much busier week from a media-watching perspective. Finished a book and watched a bunch of movies and episodes. In the reading department, I finished A Trade of Blood, the new Ana and Di…

The day before Michaela and I were going to head out to Utah, she came upstairs to get me. “The freezer’s broken.” I was reluctant to believe that, as our fridge was just 6 years …

Hello everyone!! I hope everyone has had an incredible week WOOO!!!  This marks the end of my 3rd week of the MTC and 1 whole month as a missionary!! Boom boom boom.  This week has honest…

On my trip in Utah and my way back, I had less time than you’d assume. Didn’t finish a single book, alas, but I did find time for a few films. First off, I revisited Zombieland and Zomb…

Hello all!!! The MTC is not at all what I thought it would be. It’s like hanging out with the funniest but also most spiritual people all day and then also I get to learn Slovak. But each wee…

Another week, another media report. I finished another book: That’s Not My Name, by Megan Lally. It’s a YA thriller about a teen who wakes up with amnesia after a seeming car accident w…

Hello all! It’s ME Sestra Cundick  Wowie this week has taken months. But its been INCREDIBLE!! Truly one of a kind! So let me update all my fans  So I met all of my companions and m…

I’m back! And this week, I actually had time to get some reading and watching in, which means I have something to report. First up: reading. I finished Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword. …

Today should be the day I post my “what did I watch and read last week” post. But in a rare occurrence, I actually didn’t finish a single book, movie, or even a TV episode. My wee…

I actually finished one book and read two others this week, which surprises me now that I look back at it. I was running a bit behind my goal of a book a week, so I put my nose to the grindstone to…

It’s official. Daniela was set apart as a missionary yesterday, and today she started Home MTC. What’s that? It’s a two week program where she works on learning her mission langua…

As I mentioned yesterday, we’re back from Mexico! And as promised, I’m here to give you an overview of what we did and how things went. Overall, it was a fantastic trip that all of us t…

Sorry for missing last week while I was on vacation, but I’m back from Mexico now and ready to report. I’ll have much to say about my Mexican vacation soon, but for today, I’ll ju…

We hadn’t originally planned any big trips this summer. Between Tomas getting married and Daniela heading out on a mission, it just felt like it was too packed already. But the closer we got …

Another week’s started, which must mean another week ended. What have I been up to, media-wise? Well, I’m still in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series for books. Just finished This Inevitab…

Up until yesterday, my thoughts around Graham Platner were pretty consistent. He had presented himself as a person who’d come from a checkered past and was now doing his best to change and be…

I’ll admit it: I’m struggling right now. Not really in my personal life, but on the blog side of things? Most definitely. I have a slew of thoughts, but I have a hard time convincing my…

I headed down to Boston with the family for a few days for an extended weekend, and I wanted to report back here on some of the things we did that I can recommend to others. First off, I have to hi…

One of my personal favorite genres of movies or television has got to be the horror/comedy. In part, this is because it’s a genre that’s so hard to really pull off well. Sure, there are…

For the last seven years or so, our older kids have generally gone to the Maine Fiddle Camp in the summer. (It shut down during COVID, and I think Daniela missed it one year as well.) It’s a …

If you’ve been following the news lately, you might have noticed a bit of a dust up involving Latter-day Saint politicians who have otherwise been very vocal Trump supporters. The Defense Dep…

Yesterday we trekked over to the high school for Daniela’s graduation ceremony. It was a rainy morning, so it was held inside the gymnasium instead of out on the football field, but it went r…

It feels like there are new shows coming out every week these days. So many that it can be very hard to keep up with any of them. I read one article about a new show by the Duffer Brothers (of Stra…

I had the chance to give another talk in church yesterday, and so that means I also have the chance to share it all with you today! Here are my full remarks. (It was a short talk, this time.) I was…

When the Trump administration announced its plans to change the way green cards are acquired, I immediately took notice. As the husband of a foreign-born spouse, this is a process I have direct exp…

I’ve got two great examples of being a proud parent for you today, one for each of my daughters. The first is for Michaela, who was named Student of the Month for May. I went to the ceremony …

For the past several weeks, we’ve been playing tag with being sick. First Michaela came down with something like a bad cold, and she passed it to Denisa, who passed it to me, and then Daniela…

If anyone’s been in the workforce for the last decade or so, nothing I say here will likely be surprising, but it’s still something that’s really come into focus for me over the l…

After almost seven years, I was finally released as the Stake Executive Secretary yesterday. (Well, I suppose I should mention it was technically the second time I was called to the position, but s…

Back in March of 2024, one of my left teeth was hurting enough that I finally decided to do something about it. As in, ask a dentist. And longtime readers will know that first I thought I needed a …

Daniela decided to switch up her sports one last time as she comes into the final homestretch of high school. So after running cross country, skiing nordic, doing high jump, javelin, & shot put…

Phew! We just got back from a trip to Pennsylvania for Tomas’s wedding, and it was quite the whirlwind. The wedding itself was a great success. Rain was in the forecast, but it somehow held o…

When it comes to rating things these days, I’m drifting away from the 10 point system toward a simple love/like/neither structure. Mainly, that’s because that’s all I really care …

Like many people, I really liked Andy Weir’s book, Project Hail Mary. It was a fun read, with a solid premise, and a fast pace (from what I remember). So I was looking forward to the movie ad…

It’s official! Denisa is starting a new job in May. She’ll be an ESL teacher for grades 3-6 at McMahon Elementary School in Lewiston. This will be a full time position, and quite the ch…

As AI advances, it’s getting to the point now where it doesn’t just go and do what you tell it to this instant. It will also remember what you’ve told it, and act on those directi…