Relying on my community

I'm reading House Thinking by Winifred Gallagher right now, and one of the book's most interesting sections discusses the way Americans of different social classes view moving and home improvements. College-educated Americans, who often left home to go away to college, seem to be more open to the idea of settling far from their families of origin, while those without college educations seem more likely to live near extended families. So when it comes time for most college-educated people to improve their homes, they can't call on brothers and sisters and cousins to come pitch in and help them raise their barns, they have to call on professionals.

We live very far from our families right now, but I was able to draw on a friend in my virtual neighborhood, Courtney, to help me redesign my blog. I've been staring at an ugly header for months, stressing over the milk/sweat dripping from my fellow runner's nipple, from comments that I was flaunting my body in an unseemly way and from the overall junky, unstreamlined look of the blog. Courtney took my pictures, cropped them and created something beautiful-- something that should give visitors to my blog a good idea what it's about-- a mom who loves to run. So thank you very, very much Courtney!

1. a pretty blog header
2. the primary sacrament meeting is done!
3. Sunday afternoon naps