Mother’s Day is coming up this Sunday. Are you ready? I have started my preparations. I’m in the “think preparation” mode for Mother’s Day. Remember the “think method” of learning to play a musical instrument in the movie “The Music Man?” I’m thinking that I’ll be getting ...

As a kid, I took care of chickens. I used to sell eggs to the neighbors. My eggs were popular with the elementary school teachers because they knew I had roosters in the coop. They liked those fertilized eggs. They could be used for incubating to hatch chicks out in class. I guess it was the ...

Last weekend, I was gone from Sanpete for 26 hours. Technically, it was twenty-six and a half hours. But I didn’t want to write that more than once. We were celebrating our 44th wedding anniversary with a little getaway. Some of you congratulated us for the occasion. Thank you for that. I ...

What follows is random and rambling. I do this here once in a while. It’s just musings and memories of life for me in Sanpete lately. I’m just sharing what comes to my mind of what’s been going on the past week or so. I think that highfalutin writers would call this “stream of ...

I’ve been thinking again. (I know. It’s scary.) We all have thoughts. It’s what our brains do. Every waking moment seems to be occupied with thinking about something. I was intrigued by this concept so I did what any curious thinking mind would do: I goggled it. Barry Gordon, professor ...

I mentioned here, about a month ago, that I had been on a cruise down Mexico way. I also mentioned that I got a massage while on the ship. Before we parted ways, Jess, my professional and talented masseuse, had some advice for me. Among other things, she recommended that I take occasional baths ...