Learning to Love Math

When I was nearly four years old, my father received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and since that time he has been a professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University. On June 30th, 1995, he retired, was granted emeritus...

Summer Solutions

Loretta from Lansing, Michigan, writes: Summer is here. I always think it will be a glorious golden event with “precious moments” and sweet dreams and lifelong memories and on and on, until I will never be able to measure up to my own expectations. Too...

Doubt Not; Fear Not

An anonymous sister writes: How can we practice “doubt not, fear not” faith in such frightening times? Jeannie says: When I was five years old, Los Angeles experienced a terrible earthquake. I remember my father ripping me from sleep, hastily setting me...

English As a Second Language

An anonymous sister writes: Our Relief Society teacher was raised in the church, in Idaho, attended BYU, and sometimes seems to have read everything ever written about the lesson material and even to know many of the authors. I am a recent convert, just moved to the...

Goal for a Lifetime!

My brain is pretty full just musing over my latest read, one of the various internet discussions I am participating in, and which name goes with which of my children. If I had to remember every appointment, every event, every tidbit of information that helps me...