It’s occurred to me recently that people I know or hear of, often have seemingly good ideas. It’s also occurred to me that many of these “good ideas” are seemingly not for me. Some of them are so “seemingly not for me” that I think I’d still be opposed even if threatened with a ...

I’ve been asking myself some hard questions lately — again. These questions are relentless. Some of them are related to my age. Many revolve around the general question: “If not now – when?” A question in this category that I ask myself every so often is: “When am I going to ...

Hooray! The Iowa caucuses are done. When it comes to politics, we can now hear about the New Hampshire primary election ad nauseum until we’re sick to death of that. But we need to pay attention. The presidential general election is just around the corner. It’s only about 10 months away! ...

It’s great to be starting a new year. It’s fun to talk to people and find out what they’re planning to do this year. I’ve visited with quite a few people. It’s been interesting to discover what seems to be a trend in perception of our year just completed. For some reason, quite a few ...

This time of year, there are many who like to make predictions about the future year. There are always people predicting what is in store for the world and, for that matter, the end of the world. There are always lots of political predictions as well. In my research, I don’t see any relevant ...

I’m writing this piece, with a deadline a few days ahead of Christmas Day. It appears that there is a very small chance that we will have received a dusting of snow for our Sanpete Christmas. Of course, things might change between this writing and Christmas Day. It’s possible that we’ll ...