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March Madness Musings
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...
Laureen Simper
Mar 253 min read
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Human Nature Quiz: Who Are You?
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...
Laureen Simper
Dec 18, 20243 min read
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Tell Me a Story
(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...
Laureen Simper
Nov 16, 20244 min read
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Lessons from 9/11
(Edited from original post September 12, 2021) Yesterday, I read a number of posts of the phone transcript from Todd Beamer on Flight 93...
Laureen Simper
Sep 12, 20243 min read
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Take the Kingman Test! You Might be a Kingman if...
Come Follow Me (Alma 51 & 60) Those kingmen, though. They sure knew how to bury the lead story of their true motives when their cause...
Laureen Simper
Aug 26, 20244 min read
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Political Correctness Book of Mormon Style
Come Follow Me (Alma 32-35) The cancel culture seems terribly au courant because it hit so fast and almost feels like it came out of...
Laureen Simper
Jul 30, 20244 min read
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Predictable Madness
Come Follow Me (Alma 8-12) Alma's mission to Ammonihah makes for some thrilling reading; it runs the gamut of beauty and quite literally...
Laureen Simper
Jun 19, 20244 min read
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Lizard Logic
Actually, there's no such thing as lizard logic. Lizards have teeny tiny brains capable of survival thinking: fight-or-flight, eating,...
Laureen Simper
May 24, 20244 min read
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Road Map to Destruction
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 11-17) The Book of Mosiah has some of the most brilliant commentary about government in the entire Book of Mormon...
Laureen Simper
May 16, 20244 min read
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You're Not the Boss of Me
We've got to talk about the most incredulous irony of the universe. All things were created by God. He is the King of the universe, and...
Laureen Simper
May 13, 20245 min read
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Celebrating Motherhood
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....
Laureen Simper
May 11, 20243 min read
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Would You Vote for This Man?
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 1-3) Mosiah 2:17 is almost iconic in its universal recognition and application: “And behold, I tell you these...
Laureen Simper
Apr 25, 20243 min read
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"Your" Truth and Other Lies
In 2008 Stephen Covey began a speech at the University of Cumberlands with this story: “It was a dark and stormy night. Crewmember:...
Laureen Simper
Apr 18, 20245 min read
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Worth Protecting
(Originally posted May 16, 2022) I was 16 when the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down in 1973. In my sheltered naivete, I was horrified...
Laureen Simper
Apr 17, 20243 min read
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Saving the Country and Other Hobbies
In 2006, my book group read a phenomenal book, 5000 Year Leap by Cleon Skousen. It lays out 28 liberty principles culled from the...
Laureen Simper
Apr 11, 20244 min read
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Witness, Whittaker Chambers
(Originally posted January 24, 2018) Our book group read an incredible book called Witness written by Whittaker Chambers. Chambers...
Laureen Simper
Mar 21, 20243 min read
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Participation Trophies and Bank Holidays
It’s great to get a day off work for any reason, so hey, I’ll take it. But I’m not a huge fan of calling today President’s Day because it...
Laureen Simper
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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Re-Write Your Story
(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...
Laureen Simper
Feb 13, 20244 min read
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Start With Their Eyes
The first time I heard the term ‘intersectionality,’ I wondered where it had come from. I had a friend studying at a small university who...
Laureen Simper
Jan 21, 20244 min read
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News Is a Product
(Edited from original post October 22, 2022) A plea to my Utah friends: please, please, please break up with KSL News and the Deseret...
Laureen Simper
Jan 16, 20242 min read
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