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...

Mother’s Day used to really bug me as a young mother. I remember one particularly poignant Mother’s Day when my first child was 2 or 3....

(Originally published in The Millennial Instructor, Vol. 1, 2017) Imagine waking up in the morning and having someone ask you this...

In 2008 Stephen Covey began a speech at the University of Cumberlands with this story: “It was a dark and stormy night. Crewmember:...

One of the most memorable movies of my childhood is Shenandoah - filmed in 1965 and starring Jimmy Stewart. The thing that made it...

(Original post April 30, 2022) I was the burnt waffle. Erma Bombeck wrote that it’s too bad we can’t do children the way we do a batch of...

Friday morning, long hike day. Dale's been doing it since retirement, except for the long months of my illness, hospitalization, and...

(Originally given as a talk in sacrament meeting June 12, 2022) I need to give you three images for the story I'm about to tell. The...