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Tag: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Posted onApril 11, 2014April 11, 2014For the Mormons

Why you should give thanks after reading this

I’m grateful for $13 in my checking account until Tuesday. It helps me focus less on stuff and on what really matters. I’m grateful for…

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Posted onSeptember 7, 2013September 7, 2013All About Boys

Mr. (Not) Right

Welcome to Team Henneke, where everybody not only wants to be right, but needs to be right. No way will we give into the other…

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Posted onFebruary 24, 2012February 29, 2012For the Mormons

History in the making

  I’m the world’s worst genealogist. There, I said it. I can’t spell the word without Google. Searching records online? Combing cemeteries for gravestones? Sending away…

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Posted onDecember 6, 2011December 6, 2011For the Mormons

10 unbendable, absolute truths about Christmas

1. I still believe in Santa Claus. 2. Santa likes only frosted sugar cookies made special by Mrs. Claus, with no more than a half…

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Posted onDecember 4, 2011December 4, 2011For the Mormons

Dear Journal: I guess I did need you

She held up the beautiful brand new journal and asked if I wanted it. My first thought was to say no, because journals take too…

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Posted onNovember 6, 2011November 6, 2011For the Mormons

“What if Elder Zwick comes to your house?”

The voice, impression, perhaps revelation, hit me as soon as I walked through the door of my tiny basement apartment. I had just returned from…

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Posted onNovember 2, 2011November 2, 2011For the Mormons

When the gringo had to learn Spanish

Giving up girls for two years I could do. Missing out on on a few seasons of Cheers or Family Ties I could handle, Learning…

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Posted onOctober 13, 2011October 13, 2011For the Mormons

Why Mormons (yes we believe in Christ) shouldn’t get our feelings hurt

Somebody called you names again, and now you’re hurt a little bit. That Dallas reverend said you belong to a cult, and it made you…

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Posted onOctober 2, 2011October 2, 2011For the Mormons

In a strange land

It didn’t take long for the homesickness to hit, the kind that twists your stomach into 400 knots. It was in the Wal-Mart parking lot,…

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Posted onSeptember 25, 2011September 26, 2011All About Boys

Chasing the perfect ending

I wanted my last Saturday as the Sunday editor for the Democrat-Herald to be picture perfect, something that would make filmmaker Ken Burns beg me…

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