I created this blog to motivate myself to write down my thoughts more often. I have a family blog, but I don’t feel comfortable airing my more personal thoughts to everyone that I know. Better to share those thoughts with strangers, right? 
Mostly this blog is just for me, and if I come across like-minded people along the way, so much the better.
I chose “A Bendy Road” for my theme because like anyone else, I have faced a lot of unexpected twists and turns in my life. One of the biggest bends I have faced in the last couple of years has been my husband’s (we’ll call him Jack) disaffection from the LDS church, the church of our heritage. It has been turbulent in a lot of ways, but has also helped me to broaden my view of the world, which has been positive. I am now facing a lot of my own doubts about the literal truthfulness of the church’s claims.
I have had very positive experiences with the church in my 30-ish years of life, and I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. But I do want to be honest with myself and allow myself to explore and decide for myself what I believe, and what I want to do about it. I am learning that the world is full of colors and all kinds of shades of gray. Now that I have seen that, I cannot go back to the simple, black and white view that is sometimes embraced in my very conservative, orthodox tradition. So I am something of a cafeteria Mormon these days, trying to partake of all the good things but leave the less desirable items behind.
