by Molly Christensen | Feb 5, 2008 | for Mind, Homeschool
Recently I was looking through a second or third grade math text and was pretty amazed to find that it contained about four months worth of calculator lessons. Well, they called it something cooler than that but it was basically lessons on how to operate a...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 1, 2008 | Book Club, for Mind, for Spirit
Choose anything by or about President Gordon B. Hinckley. Let's have a good cry together. Here are a few possibilities: Go Forward With Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and...
by Molly Christensen | Jan 13, 2008 | for Mind
Years ago, my sister-in-law had a medical emergency. She was bleeding profusely, but she still had the presence of mind to tell her husband her blood type. She managed to say, “Be positive.” Her husband, worried as he was, replied, “I'm trying to be,...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 4, 2008 | for Mind, for Money
Recently I took a survey sponsored by the Cougar Club. The last question was: What is your main reason for not donating to BYU Athletics? Here's my response: We donate to BYU regularly, to various departments and special projects. And I love BYU football, and have...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 1, 2008 | Book Club, for Mind
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life By Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander The lure of this book's promise starts with the assumption in its title. Possibility—that big, all-encompassing, wide-open-door concept—is an art? Well, who...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 1, 2007 | Book Club, for Mind
Facing Your Giants: The God Who Made a Miracle Out of David Stands to Make One Out of You By Max Lucado Giants. We must face them. Yet, we need not face them alone. This profound look at the life of David digs deeply into the defeats he suffered, and the victories he...
