Tuesday night was our monthly Inklings discussion; ladies in my neighborhood gathered to study general conference talks. We range in age...

"Take My Hand," Greg Olsen If you go into a Deseret Book store, and look for the book Like Him, and turn to page 49, you'll find this...

I've always admired people with great discipline, probably because I fancy I don't have any. And while that may not be entirely true,...

I spent my 65th birthday in the hospital. I had a serious case of covid, as had Dale. That Friday - November 19, 2021, was the first time...

Let’s hear it - three cheers for difficult! Crickets. Humanity is not, as a rule, a fan of difficult - the thing that distinguishes this...

Look at these two cuties, would you? The date was June 2, 1955. Seventy years ago, these two young pups went into the Salt Lake Temple as...

You know what takes a lot of practice? Like - a lifetime - and from the looks of mine, longer than that? Charity, that's what. ...

President Russell M. Nelson taught in General Conference last month: "Charity and virtue open the way to having confidence before God!...

It's taken three and a half years. Three and a half years ago, today, I fell and broke my shoulder on my morning walk. A misstep on a...

I find myself awaking on Easter morning with the image of this painting in my mind. It was painted by a man who has become a dear...

Six weeks ago, my friend who is also my stake president asked Dale and me if we could stay after church for a few minutes. He told us the...

I’ve loved this phrase for many years. Before I painted my family room ten years ago, I had it in vinyl lettering on the wall with family...

When I was in college, I would come home from my last final of fall term to find a gift waiting for me from my mother. This was usually a...

Dale is the rabid BYU fan in our house. I am the more cautious, mostly guilty-by-association BYU fan in this house. Yet I'm the one who...

I saw Little Women at the Hale Center Theater this weekend. It was a wonderful musical production of one of my all-time favorite novels,...

I made this bread from a sourdough start given to me in September 2024. I have yet to learn the finer points of carving leaves or...

There's a story behind the name of this website. I love it so much because it's been an important private lesson - so I thought I'd let...

Did you know there were two plans? I mean two real plans - not the counterfeit plan of the destroyer - no, no. I'm talking about two...

This picture is from a few years ago. Until mission season hit, these two cute ladies and I would retreat once a year to a beautiful...

I'm not quite sure how it happened. Whenever football has been discussed in my lifetime, the conversation has taken on the sound of an...