Oh I am SO looking forward to the day I can buy your book! I hope your muse cooperates so it will be sooner, rather than later.
I don't remember all the "virtue" lessons in YW. I know there were some (the 8 cows, for one), but not with visual/physical aids. I would remember cupcakes. Maybe I just missed a lot of them spending every other week at a different branch. Or maybe it just didn't stay with me since I lost a lot of faith in mormonism when my parents divorced when I was twelve. Very disillusioning to a kid who's been told their whole life that marriage is eternal, blah, blah, blah, and then gets to live through a really nasty divorce. Still took me a long time to work my way all the way out, but maybe my disillusionment kept stuff from sticking so hard. (I'm an animistic pantheist now.)
I think we got more in the way of lessons on cooking and keeping house and how to be the "perfect" housewife. But who knows, maybe being in a Mississippi backwater let some of my teachers buck the system and teach us something different.
Anyway, I am really really really looking forward to your book, because you are hi-larious!
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Date: 2011-10-20 07:40 pm (UTC)I don't remember all the "virtue" lessons in YW. I know there were some (the 8 cows, for one), but not with visual/physical aids. I would remember cupcakes. Maybe I just missed a lot of them spending every other week at a different branch. Or maybe it just didn't stay with me since I lost a lot of faith in mormonism when my parents divorced when I was twelve. Very disillusioning to a kid who's been told their whole life that marriage is eternal, blah, blah, blah, and then gets to live through a really nasty divorce. Still took me a long time to work my way all the way out, but maybe my disillusionment kept stuff from sticking so hard. (I'm an animistic pantheist now.)
I think we got more in the way of lessons on cooking and keeping house and how to be the "perfect" housewife. But who knows, maybe being in a Mississippi backwater let some of my teachers buck the system and teach us something different.
Anyway, I am really really really looking forward to your book, because you are hi-larious!