Don’t Forget to Remember

As I've said previously, my mind wanders to and fro trying to understand everything a little better as I go about my daily life. What grounds me, however, are my experiences—things that are so vivid and unexplainable that I simply can't let my mind move me away from...

Oscar Has Left The Can

Oh I love trash!Anything dirty or dingy or dustyAnything ragged or rotten or rustyOh I love trash! In the midst of the recycling revolution, those words mean something totally different than they did back when Oscar The Grouch first sang them on Sesame Street. The...

D. Todd Christofferson

Elder D. Todd Christofferson [This biographical sketch appeared the LDS Church News.] Sustained to the First Quorum of the Seventy April 3, 1993, at age 48; called to the Presidency of the Seventy Aug. 15, 1998, and sustained Oct. 3, 1998. Former regional...

Swearing and Cursing

(This is the post I promised Alison I would write. How does it relate to “Becoming”? I believe we need to take responsibility for understanding and choosing what we say and do—not allowing others to make those decisions for us.) The Bible provides the...

Spanking Children Banned

Most of America's population think it's improper to spank children, so I have tried other methods to control my kids when they have one of “those moments.” One that I found effective is for me to just take the child for a car ride and talk. They usually...

04.2008 All Moms Go to Heaven

All Moms Go to Heaven By Dean Hughes In All Moms Go to Heaven, well-known LDS writer Dean Hughes describes the summer he spent taking care of the kids while his wife, Kathy, worked on her master's degree. After a few weeks of drying tears (sometimes his own), changing...

Learning Curves of Serving in the Church

[This article was written by Michelle DeGraw. The author credit is broken at this time.] I have wondered a little about posting such a personal article on a public blog, but I have decided that there are good reasons to do so. First, of course, is feeling that MM is...