Improving Our Time

While a missionary in California, I knocked on more than a few doors. I quickly learned to knock firmly enough to be heard. Sheepishly...

While working with a colleague I’ll call “John,” I had a great opportunity to clarify and articulate my understanding of some basic...

Isaiah wrote that in the latter days, God would work a mighty work , "even a marvellous work and a wonder" which would confound the...

I wholeheartedly recommend you explore the blog posts of an acquaintance of mine, William Wynne. I started reading due to his role as the...

Aviation has fascinated me from an early age. I have always yearned to fly. I study pictures of airplanes, I read stories of heroes like...

Following my return home from California in 2011, I enrolled in school to begin my undergraduate education. This was hard for me—much...

I traveled with my family away from our home as we positioned ourselves nearly to the center of the path of totality, to experience the...

Righteous husbands and fathers are increasingly undervalued in our culture and underrepresented in our media. Much of what gets a laugh...

The following is from a brief school paper dealing with fundraising in nonprofits. The class was entitled "Resource Development for...

In my family, we enjoy a meal of symbolic foods to remember the history of the Passover, while focusing on the Last Supper. It gives us a...

Among my most prized earthly treasures are a few important documents, dealing with duty. This letter was given to my great grandfather,...

The following is from a paper I wrote as part of a class on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), taken in the fall of 2023. The class...

No one comes to America except God brings them here. ----- Prophecy of Lehi: "But, said [Lehi], notwithstanding our afflictions, we have...

Astronomy really is looking up! ----- I've been amazed by some of the most fascinating things, just by taking time to look up. Mostly...

At age 18, I was contemplating the right course to take in life. As a child, I had always seemed to assume I'd serve as a full-time...

The following is a recording of a talk given in a sacrament meeting in the East Mill Creek Ward, near Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1978. It...

Music was much better, back when "ugly" people were allowed to make it. ----- (Popular) Music used to be all about the sound, not the...

While a missionary, I spent a lot of effort trying to convince others to do things I knew would benefit them. Many times this convincing...

At the beginning of 2017, I decided I needed a long-term project to keep myself from being absorbed totally by work at the funeral home....

March, 2003. Sunday, after church. Front yard. I had received a paintball gun for my thirteenth birthday, the kind that uses small...