When someone would say, “I’m going to go take a shower,” my late father in law would often say, “I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that.” My wife and I have carried on that tradition. In celebration of “dumb dad jokes,” I suppose. Anyway, sometime back, I was taking a ...

I’ve never forgotten a conversational moment I had when I arrived at my church building years ago. I hurried to the door in order to open it for a woman who was just approaching the building. I half-startled her, but she gave a sincere “thank you” for the courtesy and then said, “I’ve ...

Last week, I was listening to one of our Sanpete radio stations (KMTI) and heard the little message show “Focus on the Family.” Part of the day’s message was something which I thought was good advice. The advice could be summed up in this concept: If something doesn’t happen the way we ...

Here we are – standing on the far end of summer. The county fair is over. (Good job, Fair Board!) School has started in Sanpete. The door of carefree summer days is starting to swing shut. It’s kind of sad. I could use more summer. I don’t need more ultra-hot days with no rain (which ...

On Nov. 3, 2007, I received a T-shirt. I still have it. I’m sure that you can tell that I feel like it was a significant event. Like many of you, I have a lot of T-shirts. If I were to count mine, I’m guessing that I’d come up with the number 30’ish, or 40’ish – okay, maybe ...

Here we are more than halfway through the month of August. As I looked at the calendar, it occurred to me that there are no holidays this month. That struck me as quite odd. I know that there are some months which have no legal holidays. But those months, March, for example, have at least a day ...

I know we’ve all been dealing with shortages and “supply chain issues.” Our loss of “normal life” has been frustrating as we deal with all the problems that seem to go on and on like a row of falling dominoes. We all seemed to live through the toilet paper shortage crisis. That ...

“Has my life come to this?” That’s what I asked myself a while back as I was preparing a bowl of Grape Nuts cereal to eat. Actually, it wasn’t “real” Grape Nuts. It was some cheapo house brand version of the high fiber cereal called Crunchy Nuggets, I believe. But most of you ...

A couple of weeks ago, I was on a late-night walk with Archer. Archer is the dog who boards with us. He’s a Sheltie (officially, a Shetland sheepdog). He’s a likable sort and is good company. We don’t have too many disagreements. You may be interested to know that I’ve been teaching ...

Many of us are interested in words. We are curious about their origins. Sometimes we like to try using a new word in our vocabulary. It’s sort of an interesting hobby. It can be fun to pay attention to the words and phrases others use. A lot of us have favorite words that we use. This past ...