If you’re totally ready for Christmas (and you should be), there is no need for you to read further. What follows is meant mainly for the ultimate Christmas procrastinator. I know that there are a few of you out there. This topic has urgency right now, as it’s just a matter of a precious ...

It’s mid-December! Christmas is rounding the “clubhouse turn” and headed into the “straightaway” (in horseracing language). We’re well past Thanksgiving and we’ve shifted the holiday gears. For many of us it’s the right time to get into the spirit of the Christmas ...

When I was a kid, my parents would sometimes say something like, “Things have got to calm down, it’s like Grand Central Station in this house. Or, mom would say on the phone, “I don’t know where anyone is today, it’s been like Grand Central Station around here.” I think a lot of ...

This is a follow-up to Thanksgiving. We should never get tired of giving thanks – of being grateful. There are people and groups who recommend the practice of keeping “gratitude journals.” I hear it mentioned at church occasionally. I hear people say that it’s been therapeutic in their ...

I’m so glad to see that Thanksgiving is becoming more accepted as a two-day holiday. It’s always seemed silly to me to have a Thursday holiday that emphasizes the gathering of families and then expect workers to be happily back on the job on Friday. In this day and age, families often ...

When I have people come to visit or when a newcomer to Sanpete is with me for a while, I’ll take them to the side of the hill east of the Manti Temple. That’s where the replica “dug-out” is located. When the first settlers arrived in Sanpete, that’s where they “holed up” and ...