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 recovery. He craves his hike days like oxygen or chocolate chippers, his finely-honed cookie recipe, which he sometimes takes on his hikes. We say prayers together, and like most hiking days, there are two prayers going on in my head: the one I am saying out loud, and the one I am saying in my head. The one out loud: "Father - please bless us wi

(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...

(Original post January 2023) It's just an ordinary plate from a Mexican shop in Ensenada. Probably didn’t even cost $20. I bought it on a...

[Originally published May 25, 2022] (Original Facebook Post March 3, 2022) I think it's time to tell you a story. I still can't go into...

[Originally published June 8, 2020] I spent much of Sunday afternoon weeping. I’d come downstairs from studying and intermittent dozing...

[Originally published December 8, 2019] The Salt Lake Temple is about to close for 4 years. I didn’t think I felt as deeply about the...

[Originally published November 1, 2019] In spite of the natural ebb and flow of living, seasons of waves can still catch you by surprise....

[Originally published October 7, 2019] We got a new furnace last week. It was relatively painless on my part, until the last hour and a...