My grandparents lived with us until just before I was in high school. My grandfather loved dogs, specifically border collies. All throughout my early childhood and teen years we had dogs, and I loved them. But when my grandfather moved to Oklahoma when he got remarried the dogs went with him. For a short period …
I was having a conversation with my brother this morning about stupid people that annoy us as we do almost every morning (spoiler alert, it’s the entire human race) and we got on the topic of politics and how broken our world is. We then we got on to the topic of friendship and how …
Last week I got into a rather disappointing conversation with my family regarding Christmas, and it reminded my about this past Christmas (2021) and how disappointed I was with the gifts I’d gotten. Yes, you read that right. And I’m sure most or all of you are thinking what a horrible person I am and …
A few months ago I took the opportunity to enroll in a unique technology program that claimed to be able to help me reorient my career in just six months. The program would accomplish this through a rigorous, demanding schedule that would have me complete two different technology certificates and provide me the actual hands …
Growing up in the Church, as far back as I can remember, there was always an ample number of young men in my ward. When it came to Preparing, Blessing and Passing the Sacrament we consistently had more than enough young men to help facilitate all parts of that ordinance. In fact, we had so …