Musical Christmas Advent Calendar

What better way to praise the Lord than through song? Use this advent calendar to celebrate Christmas all month long. Each day read a scripture and then sing of him with a related carol or hymn. December 1 Isaiah 7:14 Angels We Have Heard On High December 2 Isaiah 9:6...

Thanksgiving Top 10 – 2010

Happy Thanksgiving! With the understanding that what I'm most thankful for never really changes, I'm starting a blogging tradition. Each year I'll be noting some remarkable events and markable minutia that's made this year better than it would have been otherwise....

Need a Bath – or a Vacation

Moving twice in the past two months—not to mention the past year building a custom home—has left me much in need of R&R. I'd take a long, hot bubble bath in my jacuzzi tub…except that someone on the building crew misplaced the tub's plug. I'm thinking a long vacation...

Roast Chestnuts

When I was 19, I took a semester away from my university studies to travel with my parents in Europe. We settled for a semester in a flat on Grove Lane in Leeds, England, while my dad—a math professor at BYU—was on sabbatical at the university there. It was in England...

Mixed Race Supremacy

Alana (17): Mom, I have to marry someone of a different ethnicity so my children will be beautiful. Mom: OK. Alana: But I never wanted to be the white parent because that would be lame.