It was one of the best sandwiches I had ever made. Each piece, from the mouth-watering meat to the warm poppy seed bread, was perfect. It dripped flavor. It begged to be devoured. The time to enjoy had arrived. As I sat down, with my masterpiece placed before me, a horrid sulfuric smell burnt my [...]

“Getting out of the box” is not the same thing as “thinking outside of the box.” At least not at Zagrum, a highly successful company with a mysterious initiation meeting for all new employees. Tom Callum soon learns that he has a problem—a problem that he was completely unaware of. But he isn’t alone. “Of [...]

A New Year has arrived—right on schedule. Never again will I utter the words two thousand and ten. Unless I am using it to scold my children, “If I’ve told you once I’ve told you two thousand and ten times.” The New Year’s holiday is generally a sad time for me. It is the end [...]

It is easy to become frustrated by all of the commercialization, the crowds, the earlier and earlier appearance of decorative trinkets sold in stores. One might think that Jesus has been completely forgotten—at least to those who don’t make it a point to remember. But the fact is that Jesus’ birth over 2000 years ago [...]

The best Italian food I ever ate was in Mexico. It was during a power outage, a rain storm, and a traffic jam. When the power went out in the restaurant they didn’t kick everyone out. Instead the waiter carried on like it happened every day. Perhaps it did. My friend Ben and I sat [...]

I thought I knew what to wear to an interview, but recently, I learned that what I had always thought was the right way to dress for an interview was absolutely wrong. And I was shown some pretty good reasons for it as well. I had always heard that you should find out how they [...]

The unemployment rate that is announced each month by the U.S. Department of Labor is actually quite misleading. According to their own website people are only listed as unemployed if they have actually looked for a job in the last 4 weeks. If they have given up on looking for a job for at least [...]

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 [...]

It has taken me a while but I’m starting to learn that whenever I think everything is hunky-dory in the world, I should check with my wife, because it is probably not. That whole Mars and Venus thing – with women speaking a different language than men – my wife tried to explain it to [...]

In Utah there are LDS themed books in every store. Outside of the Beehive state – not so much. Walk into Walmart in “Happy Valley” and you may be greeted with a display of Gerald N. Lund books. Leave “Zion” and the Brother Lund aisle is replaced with “African American Interests”. For some reason whenever [...]