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...

I've posted several book reviews on this blog, and will continue to use this space for writing about books which have mattered to me....

“O come, let us adore Him...” (O Come, All Ye Faithful)   Why do I adore Jesus Christ? So many reasons. I adore imagining trailing behind...

“How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given!” (O Little Town of Bethlehem) These words woke me up this morning. Images and...

Every. Time. No matter how many times I watch the 1946 film, It’s a Wonderful Life, I cry like a little girl, or the Cowardly Lion. I...

(edited from Facebook post November 3, 2022) A season of lengthy recovery [fall 2022] has given me the luxury of more quiet time to cross...

Dear Emily, We've never met, but somehow I think of us as old friends, since I'm pretty sure we stood in a lot of the same lines in...

I can’t explain it; perhaps I don’t need to. General conference weekend feels like a holiday weekend. And no, it’s not because I can...

(Edited from original post September 12, 2021) Yesterday, I read a number of posts of the phone transcript from Todd Beamer on Flight 93...

I went to Narnia this summer. I've only been one other time; I took my son when he was 10; he's going to be 34 in a few weeks. These last...

Today the Primary children got to ask our bishop what his favorite parable was. He briefly told them why he likes the Good Samaritan....

You've probably done it at least once in your life - ruefully considered a past event in your life, and thought, "If I could go back and...

Not to start with a buzz kill or anything, but life is really hard. No, seriously. If someone disagrees, it's highly possible they either:...

This painting by Greg Olsen hangs in my front hall. There's more than the proverbial thousand words in this one for me - sermon upon...