Feeling Marginalized? "I was born in the wrong century, I swear I was!" says my politically conservative brother, David. It's quickly becoming his mantra. My siblings and I grew up in San Jose, California. David is the only member of our family who still resides in the San Francisco Bay Area after my husband and I moved to Utah in 2019. My siblings and I remember when San Francisco and Berkeley became lightning rods for the 1960s counterculture movement. We were small children but the ... VIEW POST
“For Such a Time As This”
Praise to the Man
In tribute to Joseph Smith and his birth 210 years ago. Wandering through the Sacred Grove, my 15-year-old mind tried to absorb the First Vision experienced by a boy who was a year younger than me at the time. Sitting atop the Hill Cumorah (in Palmyra, New York) a few hours later, I marveled how Joseph Smith translated the gold plates into the Book of Mormon and organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints despite horrendous obstacles and persecution. Touring Carthage Jail and ... VIEW POST
Weighting While Waiting
Exercising our physical and spiritual muscles Two years ago, I joined a gym and took up weight lifting. I had made the conscious decision to live a more disciplined temporal law. This also meant changing what I ate. At the time, I was in my 50s and watched with growing consternation, my atrophying muscles, increasing weight gain, and decreasing strength and stamina. And, I still had a gigantic appetite. I had always been thin and could eat with abandon. Aging changed all that. Personal ... VIEW POST
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