Is a Pool in Your Future?

When we moved from Florida to Utah, we had the grand idea that we were going to be gentleman farmers. We had purchased five acres of land with animal rights and were getting ready to make our way on our ranchette. We planned for horses, mini-cows, chickens, and goats....

Penny Stocks

Since my internet-bubble day-trading venture of the late 90s, I haven't spent much time in the stock market. Sure, I have the typical mutual fund retirement accounts. But I'm not a gambler…by nature or value system. Trading without doing serious company research isn't...

My Aspiring Missionary

A couple of years ago, we moved from a small city out to a more rural area. Our ward is very small, and there are few opportunities for my kids to make friends there. Knowing we would be homeschooling, I endeavored to make friends in our small town. We have managed to...

Gifts and Dementia

My mother died slowly, over years and years, bit by bit getting more lost in a cloud of dementia. She wasn't officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's, but the TIAs (transient ischemic attacks or mini-strokes—dozens and dozens of them) sure looked like it. It was her...

Math Stinks!

By Mary Rubin Stuart The trouble came on Harriet Callahan slowly. As a high school freshman she had been placed in a science and math honors program and began the year enthusiastically. But after a few weeks in first-year algebra, Harriet felt confused and scared....