by Alison Moore Smith | Jul 4, 2007 | for Good, for Love
The Freedom Festival Grand Parade is a long-standing tradition in my family. We gather up chairs, blankets, sunscreen, and enough drinks and snacks to keep even the most wriggly one entertained for a couple of hours. True, I love a parade. The bands, the floats, the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jul 1, 2007 | Book Club, for Mind, for Spirit
The Divine Center By Stephen R. Covey”For many years,” writes the author, “I have felt and seen the need for an organizing principle in life. That principle must be simple but not simplistic; and it must offer total direction in life.” This...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 27, 2007 | for Mind
See the Addendum at the bottom of the post. Just a few days back, some well-meaning Bloggernacle folk posted elsewhere that they would have responded to an article I’d written here, if only they didn’t have to register for the forum first. Realizing that...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 19, 2007 | for Fun, Yea Big
Caleb (3): Hey you guys down there! Hi, you guys! Hi!!! Folk walking below: Hi! Caleb: Hey, you guys going Snowbird? [pause] Hey! [pause] Mom, they’re good guys. Yea. You’re good guys, too. I’m good guy. We’re good guys. We’re all good...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 18, 2007 | for Spirit
Autumn of 1999 was typically humid. We still had a month or so before hurricane season ended and the weather became bearable. Sacrament Meeting in the Boca Raton Ward found me in the foyer serving my shift in the Smith Family Toddler Reverence Training Rotation. I was...
