Since I spend most of my days filling Redbox machines with DVDs, I get asked all the time if I have seen this movie or that one or what my opinion is of such and such. People are often shocked if I reveal to them that I’ve probably seen less than five of the hundreds [...]

The world that I thought I knew Is slightly altered looking through the window in the pouring rain with water droplets on the pane. Each color shape and light outside become a brush stroke to my eyes which shift and move to my delight and then they cry long streams of light. – Kevin Harris

I used to enjoy eating at Cafe Rio Mexican Restaurant in American Fork Utah. Their cilantro sauce is amazing. It brought a whole new reality to the term “yummy”. I could probably eat my own hand if I spilled some of that sauce on it. Then one day someone invited me to lunch and asked [...]

Sunday morning at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City was an amazing experience. First, it was visually breath-taking with the set pieces, decorations, dancers in the aisles, bells, stained glass windows, the orchestra, etc. Then to hear Natalie Cole sing the Holly and the Ivy was wonderful. I have never appreciated that song until [...]

Ham, Egg Nog, Chocolate, Rolls, Cookies, Soup, Cider -  There are a lot of things that come to mind when I think of Christmas time food.  We usually get a lot of treats from neighbors and we enjoy some hot tastey meals.  Christmas food traditions aren’t as universal as Thanksgiving.  Some people basically have another [...]

Below is the recipe for the delicious pumpkin cake we had for Thanksgiving. My mother-in-law made it and it was a hit with everyone. I’ve made a version of this before but this one has a wonderful creamy topping that really “takes the cake”. =) Also, if you use low fat ingredients, nobody notices and [...]

The most popular toy this year is by far the Zhu Zhu pets – they look like hamsters with wheels and when their noses hit a wall they say something funny and then turn a different direction.  You can get hamster balls or cars they can push or blankets to snuggle them in. Anyway, I [...]

All the little kids know what they are going to “be” for Halloween. But what about you? Are you the type of person who goes all out or do you have to be coaxed into dressing up at all? If you dress up, do you just wear what you wore last year or do you [...]

Each year Disneyland is transformed for the holidays – first for Halloween and then again for Christmas. And the 2009 holiday season will bring some new and exciting changes as well. Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” characters have been taking over the haunted mansion each Halloween season for a while now, but this year [...]

Everyone has favorite books that they remember from when they were little. I have lots of favorites. One of my favorite Halloween books was the Berenstain Bears’ The Spooky Old Tree. If I remember correctly the three kid bears climb inside the tree and find that it has all sorts of spooky rooms and hallways [...]