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Sun hats and soccer snacks: the season switch Three soccer games each Saturday morning – that is going to take some getting used to. In between first games one and two, I look down to see [...]

Some cautioned me about getting a puppy. “It’s a huge commitment!” they said. “It is like adding a child to the family!” they warned … but you can’t lock your child in a pen and leave the house. [...]

I was cherishing time at my parents’ home – sweet scents, comfort food and three generations laughing together. Like usual, World News blared in the background. When, “new successful cancer [...]

The Poe Gnome School is back in session; and since this is my first year blogging, and because this is a major facet of my life, I thought I’d introduce us. We’ve been homeschooling since … well, [...]

“Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world,” said Richard [...]

My Peter Pan prodigies have been putting on Pan plays for years – always with vigor and vim and ever-essential imaginations. We’ve read J.M. Barrie’s classic, watched the play, seen the movie(s) [...]

The dahlia fields near our home are in full bloom …. So my camera, my heart and mind have spent time there … picturing the act of blooming. We plant the seeds, but we can’t make them grow. We can [...]

Remember those classes in school when you wondered, “When will I ever use this? Why am I even memorizing this stuff?” I’d walk out of my university’s testing center and actually felt the crammed [...]

Spray-painted silver from head-to-toe, the man stood frozen behind sunglasses. He could see our eyes, but we couldn’t see his. “Is he a real man?” asked my five-year-old, Eli. I testified that he [...]

With just a little less sleep or a little more stress, my not-so-pretty colors pop to the surface. Those things “which do so easily beset me” (2Nephi 4:18) sure can push my buttons … and, sadly, [...]