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Happy, No Matter What          One of my favorite movies of all time is the Disney classic, “Pollyanna,” a 1960 live action drama ...

Empty Nest My house is quiet this crisp Sunday morning in January. No boys to wake up. No arguments over who uses their showe...

A Mother's Wish I wish you happiness and success, but struggle and sacrifice too. Not to be mean, but those are things that ...

As a family we read scriptures and have a family prayer at night before bed. I started this years ago when I was married to my former hu...

Why I Run I’m up and out the door at o’dark thirty    before the rest of the world opens their sleepy eyes, my Altra clad fee...

Today I am thankful for many people and things, not just because it's November, but because I think about this stuff! I...

About four days before Eric Wayne Deuley died, I had a strong prompting to call him. Strong might be an understatement. It was a such a...

I have had every intention of writing for the past 1 1/2 years. I cannot believe it's been that long! Life is so busy and my blog is the...

Steve's parents, Rhodell and Lamar Terry, rented a giant cabin in Pine Valley, Utah, for Thanksgiving this year. They had all 9 of thei...

  See the beautiful building above? It's the LDS St. George Temple. My parents were married and sealed* there. My husband's pa...

Have you ever considered what a label does? On canned goods, it allows us to have an understanding about what is inside the metal can we...

(J & Oscar at Pine Valley 5/13.)   I nearly had a nervous breakdown yesterday. I spent the afternoon and well into the evening won...

I think Eddie Cochran said it right in his song, "Summertime Blues."                                        "Someti...

Runny nose, sore throat, watery eyes, head ache, annoying cough, Kleenex box, tissue pile, food tasteless, no spunk. Spring all...

  As you can probably tell from the title and the pic above, this post is about Spring Cleaning or "What-Better-Things-Do-I-Hav...

         My students wrote narrative poems for a unit we worked on this month. I usually write along with them, not only because it hel...