I found this quote on Individuality and thought it was pretty good. It was said by the fifth prophet of our church Lorenzo Snow.“We are immortal beings. That which dwells in this body of ours is immortal, and will always exist. Our individuality will always continue. Eternities may begin, eternities may end, and still we [...]

160 years ago, Mormons fled Nauvoo, Illinois to save their lives. The Govenor of Illinois had literally signed an extermination order against the Mormons and condoned the murder of Joseph Smith. April 7th, the state of Illinois will apologize. Symbolic to be sure…but still, much appreciated.
“Finally” - Suntimes

Well, I have spent the last couple of days basically just floating along. Not really doing much. Got started on cleaning my bedroom. It’s a total disaster. But I’ve got one corner semi clean. I can at least walk around my computer without tripping on anything. Taxes were sent in this week. We should have [...]

Here’s an entry I thought was interesting at Book Magazine.comIn honor of America’s 227th birthday, we set out to find the twenty novels and nonfiction titles that have had the greatest impact on the history of the country: the ones that led to concrete, definable changes in the way Americans live their lives. We omitted [...]

This was a very good weekend. We went to Janzan Beach and sat in the mall parking lot and watched the fireworks. I keep forgetting to make the kids bring jackets. I remember blankets, pillows, food, books and whatnots but NEVER remember jackets. Ten o’clock at night is still cold next to the river.Karel’s sister [...]

I spent most of Wednesday cleaning my bedroom. We are finally getting Karel’s bed on Friday so that means over the next week Karel will be moving into the third bedroom that we use as our computer room. We have to split the computers between our rooms, hence the clean up. We have to much [...]