Up For Air
It’s been a very busy couple of days. I have been busy at our conference. Sunday we took a break and visited our families. I had the extra satisfaction of playing host to an old friend of ours and her…
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Pre-Conference Denial
My company puts on a conference for e-learning developers every year. The pre-conference starts tomorrow and I am teaching the first pre-conference workshop. I have heard much talk around the company worrying about being prepared for the conference but I…
Misleading Headline
It’s frustrating to read articles such as the Daily Herald’s “Lehi residents talk about east-west freeway” because the title suggests that there might be a Lehi viewpoint to the article. It looks more like a UDOT viewpoint. The results of…
Independence Day
Let it be known openly that the Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays. I love this country. I love what it stands for. I love the way that we celebrate it (family, fireworks, and food). I think…
Welcome Cade
Laura told me that we should call my brother to see how things were going and see when they expected their new son to be born. I told her that maybe there would be an email from my mom when…
Forging Group Identity
After spending the last few days at Youth Conference, I am thinking a lot about finding ways to help a group of a dozen young men into a cohesive group who will work together and feel as if they can/should…
Seeds, Trees, and Fruit
I read Alma chapter 32 again this week and the analogy of the gospel as a seed. I have always loved the imagery of cultivating the tree of Christlike attributes in our lives through the exercise of faith. As I…
Bedtime Dynamics
As Savannah and Alyssa share a room we have a near nightly ritual where one gets mad at the other for some infraction of the Sisters Code of Conduct™ (at least on the nights where they don’t both test how…
Father of Daughters
As Laura was going out to visit a neighbor she (or one of our girls who was going with her) found one of our naked barbie dolls on the sidewalk up the street (has anyone noticed that barbie dolls are…
Neighborly – Like Leonard Goss
I was having a rough day today so I was pleased that Laura showed up at the office with the kids to give me a ride home. Not two blocks from work we turned a corner, hit the gutter, and…