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Posted onDecember 16, 2011Making You Better

Christmas miracle in the checkout lane

(Editor’s note: I wrote this four years ago. It reminds me how good people can be, and how good I need to be.) The young…

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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 4, 2011November 4, 2011Journalesque stuff

Mr. Downer unleashes his inner Mary Poppins (sort of)

Found myself doing it again. Somebody asked me tonight how my week went, and without thinking, i launched into Chicken Little. Or maybe it sounded…

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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 30, 2011October 30, 2011Making You Better

7 tips from the Facebook Dad

I think all my tools from home are gone. That’s probably for the best. I didn’t know how to use most of them. I imagine…

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Posted onOctober 26, 2011October 26, 2011Making You Better

The next best thing to moving mountains

 “We must actually make the effort. It’s in the doing, not just the thinking, that we accomplish our goals.” — Thomas S. Monson So much for my plans to move mountains…

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Posted onOctober 20, 2011October 20, 2011Making You Better

The magic chair

It doesn’t look like a magic chair when you see it at first. It’s the one with the comfortable cushion seat, a high back complete…

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Posted onOctober 15, 2011October 15, 2011All About Boys

Don’t tell mom

Listen up, boys. The following is Top Secret, Eyes Only, Guy Clearance. Under no circumstances is this to be divulged to mom or your pants…

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