by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 11, 2012 | for Good
We hear it all the time. “Never forget 9/11!” But I don't know that I'm climbing aboard that bandwagon. The same has been said about Pearl Harbor and the Holocaust. And plenty of people have tried to keep that memory alive, but I don't think I can ever...
by Alison Moore Smith | Aug 19, 2012 | for Good, for Spirit
From the time we were newlywed college students living below the poverty level (is that the bottom one percent?) to today, when we're a tad more financially stable, Sam and I have been staunch conservatives. When we stood to get lots of handouts from government...
by Michael J. Snider | Jul 22, 2012 | for Good
What should Latter-day Saint's position on socialized medicine (or socialized anything) be? I always look at what the brethren have said in general conference and there have been a number of statements on this subject made from the pulpit. The apostle Ezra Taft Benson...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 20, 2012 | for Good
I've always been baffled at “pro-choice” activist. In the same breath that they promote awesome “choice” in sucking babies into pieces, they decry those who would commit the horrid, unthinkable act of displaying photos of the atrocities...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 6, 2012 | for Fun, for Good
Remember when Prince changed his name to that symbol that couldn't be pronounced, so everyone started calling him “the performer formerly known as Prince”? (Where was his PR agent when that happened?) Like that, I have a calling no one can identify. I'm...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 8, 2012 | for Good, for Mind
For ten years we lived in the stereotypical retirement mecca called Boca Raton, Florida. the only problem was, we weren't retired. In fact, I wasn't even 30 years old when we moved there, so we were rather out of the median age range. At the time we joked about...