I love books. I like to mark them up as I read them, and reread them, and arrange them and rearrange them on my bookshelves. I have a lot of books but there is a handful that I can honestly say have changed my life. I will never forget the time that

An older couple came in to my work the other day. They were commenting on how beautiful the area was and what a nice day it had been as they walked in. I began helping them and engaged them in some small talk as I often do. I wasn’t expecting to get much out of [...]

“The unhappy woman believes she should be happy all the time. The happy women believes that there will be times when she is unhappy.” Which woman are you?

“Decisions Determine Destiny” – Thomas S. Monson

The new year is quickly approaching and as I think back over the past year, it has been a very hard challenging year, but also an amazing year full of miracles. I had a list of grand things I wanted to do this year, very few things are crossed off. Changing states and all the [...]

This is incredible! I love beautiful artwork that inspires you. I’ve been a fan of Liz Lemon Swindle and her artwork for as long as I can remember and always thought it was beyond my budget, but not anymore. I just found an affordable way to get a new Liz Lemon Swindle painting each month [...]

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 [...]

Luke 2: The Nativity Story 1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own [...]

Another of my favorite Christmas stories is called “The Bells of Christmas”… The sun, though screened by winter clouds, was only partway across the sky when Pedro and his little brother Marcos began their evening chores. They sprinkled corn into the coop and raked straw so the chickens would have a warm place to sleep. [...]

Miracles do happen and love can win out—even in the midst of war. The miraculous events that happened around Christmas during the first world war attest to this. As part of my Christmas stories week I am including an excerpt from “The Christmas Truce” by Laurence M. Vance: The Christmas of 1914 was the first [...]