Month: November 2007

Mysix-year old boys are on a basketball team. The Sandy City Parks and Recreation department has christened the team the Suns, after the Phoenix Suns, which sent one of the twins into a paroxysm of rage. “I want to be the BYU Cougars!” he shrieked, yet they’re still the Suns. The universe is a harsh, ... Read more

Thatmeans "The Pescados" in Spanish. Now I'm up to Post #102! ... Read more

OK,first 100 posts. Close enough. This is Post #101. I should have made a big deal about post #100, but I’m focusing on this one because it’s the beginning of the next 100. (Also, I didn’t notice that the last one was #100 until today, but that’s a less dramatic reason, so I’m improvising.) Although ... Read more

Finished Christmas cards today. We're sending out a picture along with a form letter that gives everyone the update as to what's going on. Many readers of this blog will be receiving said letter within the next couple of days. But for those of you who won't, because I don't know your name or address, ... Read more

ThreeFM radio stations - 106.5, 100.3, and 97.5 -  have been playing Christmas music in the Salt Lake City market since the day after Halloween. Both major Salt Lake newspapers have been filled with letters to the editor screeching "It's too soon! It's too soon!" To those secular Scrooges, I say "bah, humbug."  Or, in ... Read more

Iwore my Christmas tie to church today. It’s an innocuous little black number with miniature Santas all over it, but it was more than enough to embarrass my ten-year-old daughter, who prematurely entered a teenage state of mind a decade or so early. “It’s not even December yet!” she huffed. “Why do you have to ... Read more

THE GOOD: The turkey. The rest of the feast was great, too, but the turkey was exquisite. It was magnificent. It was scrumtralescent. How good was it? There are no words. For the past three years, we’ve been given fresh turkeys by one of my clients. How fresh? Well, our turkey was alive and gobbling ... Read more

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Tomorrow'sThanksgiving! Shouldn't you be doing something other than reading blogs? Allow me to be helpful. Since I know all of you visit this blog for the cooking tips, I provide you with my wife's yams recipe. All my life, I hated yams. Then my wife baked up some of these. It just goes to show ... Read more

The Salt Lake Tribune carried an article today about a rebuttal to a speech given by LDS General Relief Society President Julie B. Beck in the most recent LDS General Conference. The whole sorry incident just makes me sad. A recap for those of you who missed it: In October, Sister Beck gave a speech ... Read more