Ring! Ring! I pick up the phone. “Hello?” “Yes,” say two female voices in unison. “This is Katrina and Rita with your wake-up call.” It’s sad that it has taken two catastrophic hurricanes to remind me of how incredibly unprepared I am for an emergency, but it’s true. Were an earthquake to strike in my…
If you’ve had your political ears open and wax-free recently, you’ve likely heard the name of Mitt Romney, governor of the great state of Massachusetts. Utahans know Romney as the president and CEO of the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee, who not only lifted the 2002 Olympic games out of hang-your-head scandal, but also put…
I’ve got a bone to pick with CBS. And it’s a big one. We’re talking dinosaur-sized bone here. Brontosaurus femur bone, maybe. The subject of my ire, dear reader, is the May 1 episode of the CBS crime-solving drama “Cold Case.” Now, I don’t watch a lot of television. In fact, I’ve never seen “Cold…
Poor elder’s quorum president. Here’s the guy whose sad job it is to get up every Sunday during priesthood opening exercises and ask for volunteers. The ward, it seems, always needs them. The sisters need someone to set up tables and chairs for a relief society dinner. The stake needs ushers for stake conference. The…
Why do people write anti-Mormon literature? What motivates them to set aside so much of their valuable personal time and exhaust so much of their energy to write books or pamphlets that attack and vilify the LDS Church? Do they really find us that threatening? NOTE: I’m not talking about books that disagree with our…
I have long legs. Long, lanky, trip-over-myself legs. Imagine a pair of telephone poles covered in dirty denim, and you get a pretty good idea what the bottom half of me looks like. Of course, put a tee shirt on that pole and you get a pretty good idea what the top half of me…
