What would my dad do?
In my ongoing battle to watch media that I missed in the last 5 years, I finally started in on "Under the Banner of Heaven" a limited series based on the Jon Krakauer book that I read while I lived with Karen & Ken in Fresno post-divorce. It, like anything I generally run across about Mormon culture, makes me wonder about my dad (which is a deep well on the best days anyway, and things like this just make the time it takes for the stone to hit the water just a bit longer). My father grew up in the suburbs of Utah, with a Mormon stepmom (his birth mother died when he was a young teen, and by all accounts was not Mormon, but that was never super-clear). He rarely spoke about his life before meeting my mom, other than he had been in the Navy, and grew up in a ranching community. It wasn't until he died that we really had some hard facts to back up the general information. He had been married in the LDS church, and then the marriage was anulled. My mom always said that my...