This morning I'm home. I turned on the Today Show to hear Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary, explain why he is dissin...

My friend Karswell sent me this video teaser for a new Internet movie that is coming to a computer monitor near you. Intriguing teaser, wot?...

Like more than a few other people I watched the finale this week of American Idol , the only actual time I've watched the program from b...

Yesterday, a clear spring day, we said our final goodbyes to our mom. My brother and I both spoke; it was a short service, conducted at the ...

Mom at the Acropolis in Greece, 1969. My brother called me just after noon yesterday, telling me that the nursing home had called him: Mom w...

Normally I wouldn't discuss something so personal, but we're all friends here, right? Yesterday I went to a new dermatologist. I try...

Lemming , 2005, in French with English subtitles. Directed and co-written by Dominick Mol. Lemming is a movie that reminds me of the old cl...

It's Sally's birthday today. Happy birthday, Sal! Tonight we go out for dinner, but before we go, thought I'd share with you som...

One thing I've had to do in the past 16 years is form an uneasy alliance with computer technology. When Sally bought our first computer,...

My friend Eddie ran this picture of some very short people in his Chicken Fat blog. By coincidence just a few days before I had found a si...

Watching the disaster unfolding in Texas as the state kidnaps over 400 children and holds them hostage to some alleged phone call from an al...

I had Monday off as a vacation day, but some vacation it turned out to be: two hours in a dentist's chair. I've had problems with a ...

Sometimes I'm mistaken for other people. It happens often. The most recent was a couple of weeks ago. I was approached by a junior high ...

Sally and I walked in the annual Salt Lake City MS Walk on Saturday, April 12. I need to come right out and say we cheated. We waited until ...

Last night Sally and I had dinner at a local mall. It's always interesting to watch the passing parade of people at shopping malls. They...

In these days of contractors like Halliburton running parts of what used to be Army responsibilities, do soldiers even have KP anymore? When...

I live in a town just south of Salt Lake City, Utah. When I moved here in 1975 it was rural; there were 6,000 residents, and now there are o...

Bonnie is a secretary at one of the elementary schools I visit on my daily service route through the school district. She sits at the end of...