Organize Your Church Stuff

Sam and I are taking the Sunday School genealogy class. As I told you, I'm trying to get myself psyched up and motivated. I'm trying to fall in love with genealogy. And that's a tall order. My patriarchal blessing says that lots of work has been done on my ancestral...

Abolish the IRS

For the past 16 years I've been the accountant for our engineering company. That explains why I get crazy angry and show signs of battle fatigue and hair loss once per quarter…on approximately January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31 of every single solitary...

What Is It About Muslims?

Did that get your attention? Probably exponentially more dander is brushed up by such titles (or those targeting Jews, blacks, etc.) than by any of the bigotry being flamed at Mormons during this presidential primary season. In his post “Tsantorum Tsurge and...

Love of Truth

I've been going through my mom's things since cleaning out my parents how to sell it. I found a file box full of 3″x5″ cards my mom had typed up and organized by topic. Each one contains a quote she felt was important, helpful, useful. Most have a...

Mum's the Word

[Looking up requirements for various Boy Scout merit badges online.] Samson (11): Mom, all of these require explaining. Mom: Yea. Samson: Well, I don't really like explaining.