I walked outside at 6:00 AM this morning to pick up the newspaper on my driveway. Across the street my neighbor had come out of the house to...

An article in the local paper shows folks why you don't mess with anyone from Utah. It's now legal to carry a gun--even without a pe...

Friday night at a local high school I helped Sally with a fundraiser for the education foundation where she works. My role was pretty small...

It was a year ago today that Mom died. She had been in an Alzheimer's care center for four years. She didn't die of Alzheimer's,...

It's good to be retired. It's good to be able to sleep in past my usual 4:00 AM waking time. Yep, I got up that early. I'm a nat...

I have great affection for the writing of Philip José Farmer, who died February 25 at age 91. Farmer wrote in the science fiction field, ...

I'm a little late, folks. On April 18 it was the third anniversary of this blog. That probably doesn't mean very much to you, but it...

News that President Obama's late mother, S. Ann Dunham, was posthumously baptized into the Latter-day Saints faith shouldn't be a su...

In a busy and trying week, here are two current favorite things: Favorite picture. My son sent me this picture of the Obamas at a 3D movie i...

Jackie was married to my wife's cousin, Steve. She died on Sunday, April 26, 2009, and her service was this past Monday. Jackie was a pe...

Angels & Demons , the new Tom Hanks movie based on the best seller by Dan Brown, is coming to theaters. I'm not a big fan of Dan Bro...

Has this ever happened to you? This morning I went into my closet to find a pair of slacks. Sally and I are attending a funeral on Monday an...

A few years ago I was in a store and when I made my purchase the young woman behind the cash register asked me, "Are you 55 or over, be...

This past week a couple of stories have surfaced that have captured public attention. The latest is the swine flu story . The old fears of a...

Every Sunday and Monday Sally and I watch HBO's In Treatment , which presents 25-minute episodes of therapy sessions with a cast of pati...

I have watched the first two episodes of the CBS Thursday night slasher-TV drama, Harper's Island . If you aren't familiar with it, ...

Dr. Phil was going on yesterday on his TV show with some parents about their children and the "sexting" phenom. That's the one...

Sally and I love being grandparents. My son, David, is a good dad, he's in a good marriage and has a couple of great kids, both girls. B...

I had one of those nude-in-public dreams last night. In the first part of the dream my brother Rob and I are trying to pitch a script idea t...