Open Thread – Saturday General Conference

Please add your thoughts, impressions, comments about the Saturday session here. Big News Lower ages for missionary service was announced this morning. Young men may serve, if graduated from high school, as young as 18. Young women may serve at 19. Awesome! Time in...

Sluffday School

There are quite a few people in my ward (previous wards too) who seem to skip out on Sunday School. Sacrament Meeting attendance seems to be good, as does Relief Society, but Sunday School is sparse. Why is this? I have been observing and it seems to be for different...

Finish 2012 Strong

If you are considering joining me in the 100 Day Challenge to finish off the year with a huge burst of accomplishments, this is your last chance! The challenge closes at midnight tonight and won’t reopen until 2013. Start making huge changes in your life,...

Tea Party

So I was invited to attend a tea party at a friends home. This friend is LDS, and so were all the people invited. She was very careful to state that it was herbal tea and all the herbs came fresh from her garden. I don’t drink tea. I am not claiming doctrinal...

It’s All Relative; Relatively Tasty That Is

Food Storage, humph. A friend of mine worked miracles with food storage while her husband was in law school and they were growing their young family. Her daughter called powdered milk, “tasty milk,” and she, my friend, seemed to always have the best things...

The Power of September 20th

Here’s a bold prediction concerning your future. Outside of your wedding day and the birth of your children, today may very well prove to be the most important day of your life. Why? It marks the final 100 days of the year. It provides you with an opportunity to...

Choices Matter

There has been a bit of a situation going on in my ward for the last few weeks. At first, it didn’t really bother me so much. I found it odd, but it was nothing I would lose sleep over. A couple of friends were more upset about it than I was. Apparently, there...

Obama’s Foolish “Tolerance”

“Tolerance” has become the supreme value for the politically correct. It trumps everything, including common sense. In order to be acceptable in our culture, we must tolerate—and even embrace, support, and pay for—almost any behavior or...

Forget 9/11

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...